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		colmvp on June 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Results of Stack Overflow survey of 20,000 develop... Whereas according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 23.0% of U.S. programmers, and 39.5% of U.S. web developers are women.

m4x on June 11, 2014 [–]

Which is interesting, because it implies that female programmers are less likely to use SO (or at least respond to SO surveys) than male programmers are. Why is that?

EDIT: or they're unwilling to specify their gender

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