Women candidates for tech jobs did worse when their voices were masked as men's
The reason why there are so few women in tech (particularly in computer science) is because software engineering is still culturally seen like a &quot;Man&#x27;s job&quot; and fewer women enrol for IT or Computer Science degrees at university.<p>Most of the computer science courses at my uni had only 1 female per 20+ males. Even among women who do want a career in engineering, many tend to choose areas such as chemical or environmental engineering over software engineering.<p>Unfortunately, most people make important life decisions based on social imagery created by the media and society instead of doing what they really want.