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Does biology explain why men outnumber women in tech?

  • Written by Alice H. Eagly, Professor of Psychology; Faculty Fellow Institute for Policy Research; Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University
imageWho's missing from this picture?Lawrence Sinclair, CC BY-NC-ND

It’s no secret that Silicon Valley employs many more men than womenin tech jobs. What’s much harder to agree on is why.

The recent anti-diversity memo by a now former Google engineer has pushed this topic into the spotlight. The writer argued there are ways to explain the...

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