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Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

2012-05-01 08:56:40
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 09:45, Mary Barnes 
<mary(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)barnes(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
The article clearly states that women leave for the two reasons you
mentioned, which are certainly the exact same things males deal with, but
you missed a few others that the article notes, specifically and directly
quoted below:

"...lack of real or perceived opportunities for advancement, and uncivil
work environments where women were treated in condescending or patronizing
manners. Only 25 percent of the women who left engineering did so for family
reasons."

Mary

I conjecture there are few work environments where these are NOT the case.