<story><title>Women Who Code Closing</title><url>https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s too bad.&lt;p&gt;I was a minor supporter, in honor of my mother, who got started with coding around 1950.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s weird... when I was growing up, the only coders I knew were women -- my mother and a friend of mine whose mother was also some kind of programmer&amp;#x2F;data analyst. Later in life I was a little surprised to find the field was overwhelmingly dominated by men. I guess it&amp;#x27;s not surprising I found this wrong at an intuitive level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vector_spaces</author><text>I was surprised after meeting an analytics team (consisting of software engineers, data engineers, analysts) in my local state-run health system  that all of them were women -- then I learned that so were most of the engineers throughout the organization and similar organizations in the area -- overwhelmingly women, older too. Not 20 or even 30 somethings, but people who graduated decades ago. I did some more poking around LinkedIn, looking at other state run services, like our local utility companies -- where again, most of the analysts and software engineers were older women.&lt;p&gt;I knew already that there was a huge divide in salary and culture between the highly paid software engineers at coastal startups + FAANG companies and all the folks that run critical infrastructure for state and local governments, health systems, and boring enterprise companies, but I wonder if the people in those roles tend to skew older and female too.&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I&amp;#x27;ve heard coworkers at my previous coastal tech jobs express sentiments to the effect that the people described above who mostly work on Windows stacks aren&amp;#x27;t real engineers, or that there are good reasons for the vast pay disparities between these critical infrastructure folks and people working on Uber-but-for-clowns or whatever, and I think it&amp;#x27;s really silly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Women Who Code Closing</title><url>https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s too bad.&lt;p&gt;I was a minor supporter, in honor of my mother, who got started with coding around 1950.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s weird... when I was growing up, the only coders I knew were women -- my mother and a friend of mine whose mother was also some kind of programmer&amp;#x2F;data analyst. Later in life I was a little surprised to find the field was overwhelmingly dominated by men. I guess it&amp;#x27;s not surprising I found this wrong at an intuitive level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nifty3929</author><text>&amp;quot;Computer&amp;quot; was a job, not a thing, mostly women. My mom got me into computers at a young age as well. Showed me how to plug DIP chips into a motherboard very carefully, and install an extended memory manager so we could access them. 640k baby, yeah!</text></comment>