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i have been doing software development in this area for over 30 years, assembler to fortran to C to java to ruby/rails.

I can count on one hand the number of great woman software developers I have worked with over the years.

I don't know why, but there are very few woman that do coding, and those that did usually had short, 35 hour weeks.  very few were the lead developers building a product on the usual crazy development schedule.

I do think it is more to do with intelligence, in that women are smarter!

They see the shit job coding has become, and especially how bad it has become over the last 10 years and moved into careers that had more stability and more career growth and less H1Bs.

I know my daughter is a better programmer than my son, so I really doubt it is because of ability to code, but she said there was no way she was going to be a programmer.  Somehow the american kids going into college, have learned how bad a career it is from high school, newspapers and friends.  She is focusing on neurology.  [/quote]
Interesting perspective, and as a female tech manager I generally agree. Most skills are becoming commoditized and automated, and the value add for a talented engineer is via the ability to take a systems approach in integrating components in a usable way. And also the ability to build teams that can work together to deliver a complex solution and update it continuously. I'm working on a product whose ultimate value proposition is around providing the tools for developers to more quickly transform their teams to CI/CD, and it's amazing how much resistance the alpha-male programmers have to what tons of data support is where the industry is headed because it unequivocally produces better results faster.[/quote]

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