In 1992, I left the broadcasting industry. \u00a0There a lot of reasons; the culture of the industry was a holdover from the “Mad Men” legend in many, many ways; the radio industry in the 1980s and 1990s was an amazing throwback to a much more depraved era. \u00a0The culture of the industry…<\/p>\n
…oh, who am I kidding? \u00a0I left radio because I was making $7\/hour, was married,and had two kids and another one on the way. \u00a0I needed to make some money.<\/p>\n
And after I left, not a single academic launched a single study. \u00a0Because there was a time that people entered, and left, industries because the change made sense to them; because the money was better; because their goals in life had changed since college; because they discovered engineering didn’t enthrall them like cooking did; just because they felt like a change in their lives.<\/p>\n
That was then.<\/p>\n
Notwithstanding the fact that technical studies majors – engineering, computer science and the like – are among the few academic areas where men still outnumber women in college, the LATimes is wondering why there are fewer women in the world of technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m not going to bother with a pullquote; the writer, a woman who went from the CBC to Wikimedia, cites the usual reasons; misogynistic men, pay gaps, lack of female role models in management, and so on.<\/p>\n The article misses two points, I think.<\/p>\n