I genuinely believed that developers are more-less 50/50 in terms of male/female balance. But when I first discovered stateofjs.com website.
When I saw Gender Demographic graphic, I was shocked, stunned and shocked again.
After that I started to noticed this is actually true from hearing people I know discussing exactly this.
I don't understand how this is even possible, what do you think about it?
Personally, I feel like women themselves creating such issue by learning their daughters that they should be more "girlish" and software development is generally associated as a male job, thus almost no women takes this path as they should prefer more "girlish" jobs. I have never thought this way and I don't know a single male person that is against women in any kind of sense. That's why I think that's because of confirmation bias inherited from the time women were basically diminished.
Surveys
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In 2023 js is coded by 9/10 males, which is insane, this state is preserved over past years if you look back in the past.
In 2024 this tragic situation seems to be SLOWLY making its way to the balance, some countries now show 89% of male instead of 94% compared to previous year.
The salary seems to be also made its way to equal to men's even though 2023 shows underpayment, we should also take into account that surveys may be biased, so we can only see general picture without relying on it.
The more terrifying is that this is a worldwide problem. Even WW II impacted countries share the same problem, fyi it's abnormal since they lost millions lives, which created a huge gap in working force after war end. It lead to women basically being the main workforce, which eventually completely destroyed myth about women inability to work. So nowadays it's super normal to see both parents working in normal post-soviet family. That's why it's even more ridiculous for such countries to have this problem.
What do you think is going on here?
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Tech is the great equalizer. No computer cares what sex/gender a user is and no youtube videos teaching tech are directed at one biological group or another. It's the least patriarchal domain one can succeed in. I can count a handful of outstanding female Devs and DAs I follow, not because of their sex/gender, but because they are great teachers. So what are the excuses?
If you see conditions of india, in urban places many girls do jobs. There parents does not stop them for jobs in todays time. Only a few parents who have different thinking.
But the girls themself dont have intrest in computers. Especially the girls dont have intrest in science and maths and computers. Many girls take science bio but not maths. For example if there is a class in engineering college with 20 students only 3 or 4 girls will be there.
Like i am the only one intrested in coding in my class but other girls are not.
Honestly I feel a bit stupid for serious coding: I can do the basic things, but thats too hard to make real and detailed decisions, my greatest problem is making apps look well on devices with various dimensions and proportions(((
So I have to ask guys for help. So sad they never have time...
Probably the same reason why there are more autistic men than women. Our brains are diffrent
sigh