Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 5/1/12 8:12 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
> Well, it says this:
>     "The common perception is that women are leaving for taking care of
> their families," says Fouad. "But that's clearly not true. They left the
> profession for organizational culture reasons."
>
> And then this:
> Among the common factors that women cited as their reasons for leaving
> the profession were too much travel, working too many hours, lack of
> real or perceived opportunities for advancement, and uncivil work
> environments where women were treated in condescending or patronizing
> manners. Only 25 percent of the women who left engineering did so for
> family reasons.

Four reasons were listed, and you're focusing on two of them.  We really
don't know how those reasons were distributed.

It's certainly possible that the men who are being dismissive, here, or
who are saying that the real issue is that women don't *really* want
technology careers or are somehow unworthy are part of the problem.

Melinda