[gitlabuser]

Personally, I think this article title is clickbait. Nowhere does the author show that it's the best industry for women, only that in her experience, it was a better industry than medicine and a biology lab. And then some fluff about meritocracy. No exhaustive comparison across all the industry areas, no dive into data beyond one singular experience.

I'm tired of titles that don't explain what the article is about. Something like "Why the tech industry is a good industry for women" would be a more accurate reflection of the content.

We've been conditioned by clickbait farms to sensationalize our personal blog posts.

[catherinezng]

Agreed that this was clickbait. I was hoping to read insightful, personal anecdotes. She didn't offer any support for her claims other than: "I'm a pole dancer! And people still take me seriously in tech!" Not to mention the blatant self promotion throughout the piece.

[a13n]

And as a result, people clicked on it. And then they voted on it. And then it got to the top of Hacker News. And then it'll probably go on to get 10k+ reads.

Now, remind me why we shouldn't use smart headlines?

[ryandrake]

It's so weird, this community's obsession with article titles. What is the purpose of a link title, if not to interest someone and convince them to click it?

[gitlabuser]

I guess I'm contrasting it to Susan Fowler's piece "A very, very strange year at Uber" which if she wanted to could have been titled "Why Uber is the worst place to work at in the entire tech industry".

I really respect her for letting the facts and content of her article speak for itself. I wish more would do the same.

[ghaff]

I don't really disagree with you in this case.

However, to be fair, headline writers have been writing "clickbait" headlines for far longer than there have been clicks. Headlines in magazines and newspapers have never been scientific journal titles.

[colmvp]

It's understandable why they do that, but it can put journalists/writers of articles with clickbaity headlines in a tough spot, as they are often forced to defend headlines they never wrote in the first place!

[ghaff]

Tell me about it :-) I do the headlines for pieces I write and obviously no one's going to change them on my own blog. But I do write for other venues as well--and I admit I'm not the world's snappiest headline writer--and they do sometimes get changed to things that don't quite match the content of the article.

[fav_collector]

To be fair, articles that cover this topic are almost always clickbait.

[needlessly]

What do you consider the best industry for women?

None?

[gitlabuser]

Well shucks I'm not sure, I clicked on this article hoping to get some insight on that exact question.

But my hypothesis would be social services and hospitality because both those industries have a high percentage of women advancing from entry level to management roles and I think a track record of career progression is probably a decent proxy for it being a good industry for a demographic.

But I'm definitely not going to write a blog post saying "Social services it the best industry for women" until I did a lot more research into it.