This is why there’s a dearth in IT in general. Those of us who have been doing this for decades are completely invested in the nerd-dom that is IT. We’re modern-day greasers trading in oil cans and socket wrenches for wire strippers and network switches.
I know a few female coders, and they love the work that they do; but their free time is spent completely disconnected from their work lives. I envy them, in a way, but I’m a nerd, through and through.
I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: “I built a fiber-channel network in my basement,” and our co-workers fell all over themselves asking him to describe every step in loving detail.
I'll admit, I'd be hard-pressed to feign fascination in either conversation. Maybe if it was about sailing at the Cape, or even about architecture.
Of course, I usually get peppered with questions like "What are you doing here? I thought you quit!"
The Big Lie is that a woman is paid only 72% of what a man is paid, with the implication (or, sometimes, the outright claim) that they are doing the exact same job. That violates a very basic law of economics. If a business owner or department manager could get a job performed by a woman for $72,000 instead of paying a man $100,000, he (or SHE) would hire the woman every time.
This ‘gender pay gap’ has been disproved, but liberals don’t care.
Whenever someone tries to suck me into that argument I say “show me ONE SINGLE AD for a job that says “men’s pay: $50,000; women’s pay: $40,000”.
Just one.