It has always been a problem for programmers to leave their bachelor's degree. One objective reason here is that the male-to-female ratio among programmers is seriously unbalanced (for example, our company has reached 2:8). The working environment around them lacks the opposite sex. Old men hang out together every day, so it is natural to leave their bachelor's degree. It is even more difficult.
Female programmers are so scarce for the following reasons:
①Most women’s logical thinking ability is not as good as men’s
Women are generally better than men in terms of talents in arts and humanities, but generally have lower logical thinking abilities than men. This leads to the situation that there are more girls in liberal arts classes and more boys in science classes. Computer majors also have more boys than girls. The tradition of "more boys than girls" has continued from student days to the workplace.
Rather than saying that the programmer industry discriminates against women, it is better to say that not so many women chose the career of programmers from the beginning. There are relatively few girls who are good at science, and even fewer girls who are good at science and choose the career of programmers, which has led to the scarcity of female programmers.
②Characteristics of a programmer’s career
Although programmers have reaped the dividends of the Internet era and have wages that exceed the market average, they also have to face the problems of excessive overtime and short careers. For women, such working hours are difficult to balance with life. with family.
In addition, the marriage and childbearing discrimination against female programmers in the Internet workplace is more serious. Leaders will worry that the gap period of female programmers will affect the progress of the project. Therefore, a large number of female programmers may be dismissed during the interview stage. This is also Indirectly leading to the decrease in the number of female programmers.
In fact, there are advantages for girls to choose the career of programmers. As a rare "species" in the department, they can also get more or less care from their male compatriots. As long as they can balance work and life, female programmers are still a very popular industry. .
As a female programmer, you can help yourself through the following solutions:
① Make a good career plan and achieve steady improvement
If you are a female programmer who wants to work hard, then you can make a plan at the beginning of your career: first make enough money within 5 years of working, and when you enter the bottleneck period of career development, you can start preparing for the state-owned enterprise/ Civil servant/programming teacher, to a workplace environment more suitable for female programmers to survive.
If you are a female programmer who wants to keep rising, you can plan your future career development route: if you take the p sequence, you can continue to improve your technology by reading technical books, learning open source source code, and doing challenging projects. The ultimate goal is to become a technical supervisor/technical expert in the field.
If you haven't figured out the path you should take, you can find your own direction while working, and you don't need to be too anxious.
② Prepare more plan b
Nowadays, the Internet industry situation is changing rapidly. Even if you are fully prepared, you may encounter sudden thunderstorms in the industry. Therefore, before everything settles, it is best to make some plan B first.
If your main business is stable, you can find some private work on free remote work platforms such as Programmer Inn and Devnors, so that you can have a stable income after losing your job. Of course, if you are interested in careers such as self-media and teachers, you can also learn about relevant rules, policies, etc. in advance and prepare in advance.
There is a plan B, which will make you feel extremely at ease while being a programmer who is "supported by all the stars".
In fact, whether they are female programmers or male programmers, the dilemmas and choices they face are similar. It's just that relatively few women choose the career of programmers, which makes female programmers even more scarce. And for male programmers who live in an environment where "men are more than women", they don't have to be limited to the programmer group and go out to find a new object~
Female programmers in the comment area are welcome to talk about their experiences~