Certain people in my life have claimed for years that the issues I’ve had with development departments are somehow or other my fault.
Thus, it is with tremendous relief – as well as sadness – that I discovered I am not alone. In fact, I’m very much in the majority:
Last year, Harvard Business Review published a research study which found that 52% of highly qualified women in tech drop out because of the corrosive attitudes of their male colleagues.
India was found to be slightly better than the US, which does not surprise me: recently, the youngest person ever to obtain their Microsoft certification was (you guessed it) a 9 year old Indian girl.
I relate to the following especially: “A women fails and is never seen again. A woman cannot survive a failure. So they become risk-averse in a culture where risk is rewarded.”
“It’s almost like a time warp” observed one of the researchers. “Engineering and tech cultures are worse than scientific, but across the board there