Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women?
It is a continual frustration to me that the male-dominated tech community is so bad with these issues. Predictably, the top comment on this post that tries to move forward on a very real problem that has been empirically established is an appeal to stick with the status quo.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but companies have always focused on making money. Saying that the way to handle this very specific problem is to focus on making money is an appeal to brush the problem aside completely.<p>The top comment, for good measure, even obliquely swipes at active events taken by small local groups to tackle the issue, such as Girls Who Code, because men might be silently stewing over their existence...[1]<p>I am opting for a top level comment here because my frustration is less with the comment itself than that the community as a whole has voted this comment to the top.<p>[1] Before I get kneejerk responses that the comment didn&#x27;t specify the group, let me belabor the point that the context of this discussion is SPECIFICALLY women&#x27;s difficulties working within the masculine tech culture, so MinorityCodingClub trivially translates to WomenCodingClub, which sounds an awful lot like Girls Who Code, which has been gaining prominence of late. It is a cowardly oblique swipe at these sort of organizations. It&#x27;s a cop out not to name the organization that you have a problem with explicitly, an attempt to lash out at such organizations while maintaining the comfortable position of plausible deniability. Everyone gets it though. So I won&#x27;t countenance &quot;shocked and appalled&quot; denials that organizations like Girls Who Code were the target of the swipe.