| > Anybody who's ever been to a computer science class knows why- more men are interested. It's also true that men are vastly more likely to be autistic, and the social challenges with autism can make someone a fantastic engineer, but not a fantastic manager. That's not true of all autistic people, but there's certainly a correlation. Again, GitLab is talking about senior leadership -- not people who are writing code or ever needed to have done it well. Most tech execs don't even have CS degrees, because most senior leadership positions are in organizational things (operations, management, HR, sales, etc.) > I don't agree. The tech industry is predominantly male and everybody knows it. Anybody who's ever been to a computer science class knows why- more men are interested. If this were true, and gender were the only variable, then we'd see stable ratios of men to women in computer science. We haven't seen that. There used to be far more women up until the 1980s. > If you assume that male and female employees have a similar distribution in merit, than you'd expect the top of the company to have a similar percentage to that of women interested in technology in general You're assuming many things here: A. "interest in tech" is a stable personality trait and not influenced by opportunity B. "senior leadership" at a tech company like GitLab is mostly technical roles C. merit at tech companies is primarily a function of interest in technology All of those are debatable at best, although I'd say they tend more toward the side of being obviously false once you actually write them out. |