This is nice. I didn’t know about these women, other than Grace Hopper.

Why are women so underrepresented in tech?

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    Source? Nursing is the main example I can think of. As jobs in general got shitty, nursing appeared to be a seemingly less shitty career with decent pay/benefits, which is why tons of men are trying to get into it now.

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      Uhm, that depends on the country. Most places Nursing is still a really stressful and badly paid job (for all gender).

      I remember reading a lengthy well scientifically sourced article about it (sorry can’t remember where right now), and the clearest example was journalism, which went from a well paid job mostly done by males, to a badly paid (or not paid at all) job after more and more women entered the sector.

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        3 years ago

        No doubt it’s a very stressful job, but my point is that a nurse generally has better job security than most jobs. In today’s age, that’s a massively important factor when so many employers treat employees like they’re disposable. It’s also not exactly a job that can be outsourced nor automated, two factors that I think men have overlooked in the past when the odds of getting a decent paying job in other “more manly” (big eye roll) sectors were more common.