A deep dive into crowdsourced salary data from more than half a million employees shows that the gender pay gap is very real, and that male computer programmers make far more than their female ...

A new study of computer science students suggests that a confidence gap exists between men and women in software development The study was done by Piazza, a social learning platform used by college ...

In the details of that recent Glassdoor survey of male and female wages is an interesting little point that the Wall Street Journal has picked up on. Among computer programmers the gender pay gap ...

Gene Balk's new column concerns "the most common job in [the] Seattle [area]." It used to be retail sales (a part of the service economy), and is now software developers (a part of the shift from the ...

Computer programmers, the media and casual observers alike often debate the question of why there are so few women programmers compared to men. Indeed, only 19 percent of computer science majors are ...

You don't need to visit too many high-tech cube farms and computer programming confabs before you notice that women in computer science are few and far between. In a new book entitled "Unlocking the ...

China’s thriving tech sector has developed a bizarre auxiliary corps of female “programmer motivators”, recruited by startups as a perk for male developers. “Part psychologist, part cheerleader, the ...

Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are ...