"Why women quit technology careers"

I thought I'd check out the original report on which this story is based to see how some of the conclusions (like 63% experience sexual harassment) were made. It's available for purchase online but the price is $295.

This is pure propaganda. And frankly a brilliant racket. Accuse 1/2 of society of a grievous crime and then charge them $300 to see the evidence against them.

The original report is available at this link:

http://snurl.com/2jyyv

i recently (several weeks ago on this site) posted info. on a recent 20 yr. study that said 26% of women give up their career after the birth of a child. now that makes sense.

Brit's are already experiencing a lack of doctors. one big reason being trained female MD's just quitting when they feel like it. and most in med school now are women? disaster here we come. same thing w/ so called tech-women.

blaming men is a game w/ feminists. but it never seems to get old. something wrong or not going as planned? men's fault. as scared as the politicians and judges are of them, fem's could probably introduce a bill requiring 51% hiring in pro baseball players and i believe those idiots would pass that too.

and harvard was such a prestigious university. guess they dropped back to that old definition to fit their new privileged clientele.

prestigious (Webster, archaic): of, related to, or marked by illusion, conjuring or trickery.

once you step in it you are supposed to scrape it off your shoe, not identify w/ it.

I can tell you the research format... 95% probability it's a self selecting poll (or a number of self selecting polls).

Dave K
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In this article, the premise is that the main reason women quit science and tech careers is because male co-workers create a hostile environment for females.

The piece also initially disputes the data showing that the main reason women leave careers is to go home to breed and raise kids. Later in the article, it admits that a whole lot of women do just that.

If women are facing such a hostile climate in science and tech fields, how can you explain all the female-biased admission practices in colleges, the special women-only scholarships, the gender-specific advising and mentoring programs?

What about affirmative action hiring policies, data showing higher starting salaries for women in science and tech, and the pervasive corporate sexual harassment rules to ensure that the females are not uncomfortable in the workplace?

The entire article is a house of cards seeking to ignore that women make choices and do what they want at different stages in their lives.

Especially the 30 - 40 year-old crowd of mommy wanna-be's with loudly ticking biological clocks and ovaries full of eggs with imminent shelf-life expiration dates.

Good thing that these educated, entitled breeders can always find a chivalrous workaholic hubby who will sacrifice his life for access to an expensive sperm depository.

As an engineer, I have never seen a female engineer who was sexually harassed.

However, I personally know a female engineer who sexually harasses one of her subordinates every day. She feels that it is a legitimate perk of the management role. I told her off, but it did little good. I no longer work there, so I try to forget what I saw.

It stands to reason that if a woman is about to, or has recently, left a job in a male-dominated field (for whatever actual reason - finding out she doesn't like the field; finding out she doesn't like working fulltime; etc) - she is highly likely to file some sort of harrassment or discrimination lawsuit. The reason is that a woman, especially a single woman and/or an ugly woman who cannot attract a mate who will provide, is going to lose her source of income, so needs the monetary award from the suit to tide her over until she finds another job; or if the award is sufficiently lucrative, she will be set for a really long time, maybe even for life.

I recently discoverd that a former coworker of mine helped instigate a class-action lawsuit for pay discrimination, against a company she had worked for prior to the company at which we were workmates (actually office-mates). And it appears that she no longer works for that company (the one we worked at together). I wonder if she was layed off so needed the money from the former company? I looked at the details of the lawsuit, which is a pay discrimination suit, and the basis for it is completely absurd (the details are available on the web since the company is a federal goverment contractor). There are even women who work for the company who came forward and said the pay discrimination claim was bogus. One thing these women (the filers) are claiming is that they were "denied the right to have a mentor". Having a mentor is a right? That's news to me. (the company was not one of those which has a formal mentoring program).

-ax

PaulG said,

"As an engineer, I have never seen a female engineer who was sexually harassed"

Nor have I, during the time I was an engineer, nor as a software developer. This whole thing harkens back to the Clarence Thomas case, in which even though Thomas was eventually "acquitted", seems to have opened the floodgates to these suits due to the resultant expanded definition of what constitutes sexual harassment (though the expansion of the definition may have been "informal". The details are in Legalizing Misandry.)

-ax