Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men
Reading the comments on articles like this on hacker news always make me deeply uncomfortable to be a woman in tech.<p>I know it&#x27;s hard to believe, but women don&#x27;t usually get sent to coding summer camp as teenagers. Our parents don&#x27;t usually encourage us to take AP computer science, and our best friends aren&#x27;t in CS and don&#x27;t refer us for sweet internships at Microsoft and Google.<p>If you&#x27;re a woman in this industry, it&#x27;s GENERALLY because it is something that you very much care about and want to do.<p>It&#x27;s not some feminist conspiracy that women are being promoted, it&#x27;s just that the women who go into tech are usually already pretty gritty people. You&#x27;re comparing a very driven and passionate subset of women to a very general subset of men.<p>Here&#x27;s a really great article I read once -- &quot;I need terrible female engineers&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@amyngyn&#x2F;i-need-terrible-female-engineers-1023a2e973dd#.l85nr149d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@amyngyn&#x2F;i-need-terrible-female-engineers...</a>