Study: Women Who 'Lean In' Often Leave Engineering Fields

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[BroomsCloset]

Many of us engineers don't want to be managers.  I would rather work with logic and numbers than emotions.

[Mentok]

Why do you care so much about there not being women in the tech industry, but ignore that there are virtually no men at all in early childhood education k-12? There are formative years for children and there have, in many cases, no male role models at all.

[beegum]

I disagree to some extent.  I do believe a lack of support exists, in a way, because often there's not a manager directly above or controlling engineers, such as in a plant.  I don't see this as a problem.  I didn't feel supported, I guess, but I did read a lot of metallurgy, tubing, piping, and other journals related to my position.  I could see how this would be less attractive to many employees, especially women, but also some men at other places I've worked with more employee "support".