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No, I work in a gigantic company on the frontend of applications used for businesses to pay for their services. I could not care less about what I'm working on to be honest, at least the pay is good.


18000 respondents are men vs only 900 women

The State of What Men Think about Javascript

but seriously how was this survey distributed and is there any explanation for the gender discrepancy?


Maybe that's actual representation of the genders in the web development field.

If so, then it's still "What JS users think of JS."


https://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technic...

According to this woman make up around 30% of web developers in the US. The highest amount of respondents are from the US so I would expect the woman respondents to be more than a measly 5%.


Eh. You raise a good and reasonable point but in this particular case I think you're comparing pomes to apples. "Web developer" is a pretty broad term, and was even moreso in 2012 when your statistic was generated. As an example: I'm a "web developer". But if I was surveyed about CSS (as a particular technology I barely understand, avoid using, and don't care about) I wouldn't respond. I would expect a number of my backend-focused colleagues to do similarly for other topics.

Being aware of sampling bias is good and useful; I'd just worry a bit about pulling too hard on that ripcord here.


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