It used to be normal for a woman to be in I.T. years ago. They have been pushed out.

One thing we know is that the strategies that help to recruit and retain women actually benefit men, too: Making workplace flexibility policies formal, for ALL employees, rather than informal; instituting mentoring and clear paths to career advancement; and establishing merit-based performance evaluation procedures. Maybe women are just the canary in the coal mine.

Both appear to be complex accumulations of several individual factors, not all known and not well quantified. Which means that there won’t be any silver bullets — which should come as no surprise.

NB: $DAUGHTER was originally researching the differential recruitment issue, decided that the retention issue was more promising, and then got interested in another facet entirely.

Regarding your first point, I’m talking about the title. You can tell that because I, like, use the word “title” and shit. However, I quickly add: I had a sentence in there that I deleted and did not replaced that specifically noted the possibility that the title of this article was written by some hack editor and not the writer. Just guessing, of course.

What I find interesting, aside from the main issue (which is not surprising) is that the title of the blog post on this supposedly women-oriented site refers to women bailing out, while the situation really seems more like they are being”forced out.”

I left to pursue other interests,
You bailed from a bad job,
She was forced out by harassment.

And of course, the first comment mansplains that women get paid less because they are more willing to take the first offer they are given.

IIRC the conversation with $DAUGHTER on that point, the original research that pointed at that bit of mansplaining was by female gender sociologists.