“Without Stack Overflow, I’d be unemployed,” many programmers will tell you, referring to the online forum that helps solve coding problems. The site is built around questions and answers, and anything goes—from entry-level issues to, quite literally, rocket science. The community is large and diverse, and it more or less represents everyone and everything in software.
Every year, Stack Overflow asks tens of thousands of developers about their experiences in tech. It’s the largest survey of its kind, and it tells us about the kind of people involved in building software around the globe.
In the section for demographics, under “gender split,” you’ll find that, in 2022, only about 5 percent of the professional programming participants were women. The percentage is low, consistent with other reports, and doesn’t move much either. Year after year, the survey reports similar statistics.
Whether the lack of women in tech sounds like a big deal or not is up to the reader to decide. At the end of the day, if half the population is not interested in a profession as a whole, that’s nobody else’s business but theirs.
The question is this: Are women actually uninterested in programming, or do they feel unwelcome?
Continue reading: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dear-life-please-improve/202209/where-are-all-the-women-programmers
Every year, Stack Overflow asks tens of thousands of developers about their experiences in tech. It’s the largest survey of its kind, and it tells us about the kind of people involved in building software around the globe.
In the section for demographics, under “gender split,” you’ll find that, in 2022, only about 5 percent of the professional programming participants were women. The percentage is low, consistent with other reports, and doesn’t move much either. Year after year, the survey reports similar statistics.
Whether the lack of women in tech sounds like a big deal or not is up to the reader to decide. At the end of the day, if half the population is not interested in a profession as a whole, that’s nobody else’s business but theirs.
The question is this: Are women actually uninterested in programming, or do they feel unwelcome?
Continue reading: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dear-life-please-improve/202209/where-are-all-the-women-programmers
