{"id":1184,"date":"2009-01-04T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2009-01-04T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T00:00:19","slug":"its-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"It’s NOT Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Certain people in my life have claimed for years that the issues I’ve had with development departments are somehow or other my fault.
\nThus, it is with tremendous relief – as well as sadness – that I discovered I am not alone. In fact, I’m very much in the majority:
\nLast year, Harvard Business Review published a research study which found that 52% of highly qualified women in tech<\/a> drop out because of the corrosive attitudes of their male colleagues.
\nIndia was found to be slightly better than the US, which does not surprise me: recently, the youngest person ever to obtain their Microsoft certification<\/a> was (you guessed it) a 9 year old Indian girl.
\nI relate to the following especially: “A women fails and is never seen again. A woman cannot survive a failure. So they become risk-averse in a culture where risk is rewarded.”
\n“It’s almost like a time warp” observed one of the researchers.<\/a> “Engineering and tech cultures are worse than scientific, but across the board there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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