Report Why women leave tech: It's the culture, not because 'math is hard'

[tom_mai78101]

I knew something was up when Sandhya, a talented project manager I only knew slightly, asked me if we could have lunch.

She had recently come back from maternity leave. In her note, she said she wanted some advice from another mom.

Over lunch, she confided in me that she was thinking of quitting. It was too hard to juggle everything. Her manager had pressured her to return from leave early, and was pushing her again to take a business trip and leave her nursing infant at home. She wasn’t sleeping. She felt like she was failing her job and her child at the same time.

I assured her that her feelings were normal and that much of it would pass. I encouraged her to say no to her manager. I offered to speak to him on her behalf. Although she earned more than her husband did, she quit two weeks later.

Read more here. (Fortune)

 

[Accname]

Because they have to make sammiches and the kitchen is so far away from those tech job thingies.

 

[seph ir oth]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding

^ an interesting, related read.

It's most definitely a social thing that keeps the % of women in tech low. While some can ignore the social stigma and just do what they love, others cannot!

 

[Varine]

Pretty bitchy. No one is like me? The office isn't set up for you to have a baby there? What the fuck?