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Why women leave tech: It's the culture

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Re: Why women leave tech: It's the culture

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p23 wrote: post #16
dang wrote: post #14

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406912

A valid reason to kill this one. But there seems to be the problem that controversial storys get flagged of the frontpage very fast, which then makes other people repost them. Probably because the story is relevant to them/they want to discuss it. In addition to this, there seems to be a heavy penalty for posts that get more comments than upvotes, which sometimes kills quite inspiring discussions. How about introduci…

FWIW, moderators didn't touch this story. It fell in rank because users flagged it.

Re: Why women leave tech: It's the culture

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ObviousScience wrote: post #6

> It was too hard to juggle everything. Her manager had pressured her to return from leave early, and was pushing her again to take a business trip and leave her nursing infant at home. Chose family over career. Had to make predictable work sacrifice in order to have time for family. > I was the first and only person at my small company ever to take maternity leave. They had no parental leave policy previously even t…

I'm so surprised how the society keeps saying how women/people leaving the workplace to have kids is a bad thing. Personally, I would love to have the opportunity to stay at home and not need to go to work. However, being a man, the institutional, cultural and sexual factors compound and make it very unlikely that I will be so lucky.

Maybe I should move to the Netherlands - there, most women and a lot of men only work part-time jobs, as they earn enough and are able to have a better work-life balance.

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