Is it just me or is even a job at the best Tech companies just don’t make any sense for women?
There are always women who have great family support or husbands that are understanding and encouraging. But generally why does it seem like becoming a senior woman in tech even at the best places is sort of unattractive and significantly increases your odds of “failure” outside of work e.g. divorce,having kids late?
Interested for thoughts from both men and women.
That will stand true for any corporate career, nothing to do with Software Engineer I think. You need to climb up the career ladder, it will always be a struggle and huge sacrifice on personal family front. How is Software Engineer career any different. And talking of this career line, there are a few companies which give great benefits to women, they may not pay great, but they have great work culture, flexibility of work schedule, you can leave office early and connect from home for some time etc.
@shpinq is right
Software Engineering changes every few years so you cannot take it slow. You have to be on top of tech. In other careers, you can gain experience slowly and that will still be valuable
Industry is same for all. Let's not involve man-women thing here. Everyone is struggling these days, time is challenging for everyone working in IT.
"But generally why does it seem like becoming a senior woman in tech even at the best places is sort of unattractive and significantly increases your odds of “failure” outside of work e.g. divorce,having kids late?"
Seen many senior women at my workplace, never felt like there are more of men than women, workplace can’t match it so I always thought that its just based on merit and we had more men on senior positions.
There are so many men out there who don't have a job or earn 5x less than a financially successful woman. How many financially successful women have you seen marry, have kids with a 5x less financially successful man. The odds of that are pretty low. There would be exceptions but that's not the norm. While it is encouraged that women challenge gender norms by being successful at work, it is not encouraged that men challenge gender norms by being unsuccessful at work. What's wrong with that? A successful woman wants to pair up with an equally busy successful man, but that increases odds of failure. Why not challenge gender norms and let a successful woman pair up with an unsuccessful man? Well, blame patriarchy for that, but that's not going to really challenge gender norms. Males are expected to live by rules of 19th century while females play by rules of 21st century.
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