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
According to
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?
Valery Zinchenko | Sciencx (2025-01-30T06:48:09+00:00) Why so few Women are coding?. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/01/30/why-so-few-women-are-coding/
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