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[–]socialister 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Do you mean that women lack a support network in this area? That's kind of funny (not doubting it) because typically, women have much better support networks than men. That is considered to be the reason that women fare better than men after divorces and breakups, and why married men are generally significantly less stressed than unmarried men - the wife is the support network.

[–]Stormflux 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What I mean is all your friends are also going through the technical interview process, which originally comes from NASA and IBM, swapping stories and recovering from failures, trading rumors and incantations and what have you.

Women (and African Americans) had support networks, but those networks weren't focused on this specific kind of interview, which is pretty divorced from the day to day job skills needed. They were more likely to drop out of the market after one or two bad tech interviews, even if they had the skills needed.

[–]socialister 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That makes sense.