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Imagine if the article started with
Would you take it seriously?
20% is not good, but that title makes it seem like it's 80%.
The female IT colleagues I've had have been just like med: OK to stellar. The only absolute IT knobhead I've had the displeasure of dealing with was a dude, and the only non-IT dickhead colleague was a woman.
For the study, follow https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/system-update-addressing-the-gender-gap-in-tech-report and scroll to the bottom.
They interviewed 21 women and had an online survey with
and these people were 90% from England. There were 1.7 million people in tech in the UK in July 2023. The US has 9.7M and I have no idea how many the EU has (too lazy to search). But to generalize the findings of a single country globally...
What a bad article.