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Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, not Pipeline->
Submitted by FrnkMit FrnkMit (302934) writes "Challenging a
previous Code.org story on tech diversity, a Forbes.com writer
interviewed 716 women who left the technology field. Her
conclusion: corporate culture, and the larger social structure,
is the primary cause they shook the sand of the tech industry
from their shoes, never looking back. Specific issues include a
lack of maternity policies in small companies, low pay which
barely covers day care, "jokes" from male coworkers, and always
feeling like the "odd duck". In reality, there are probably many
intertwined causes: peer pressure at the high-school and college
level, female-unfriendly geek culture, low pay, a lack of
accommodations for pregnant/nursing mothers, the myth of "having
it all", stereotype threat, and repeated assertions that women
aren't biologically suited to writing s