Women in DevOps… or the lack thereof
Júlia Biró: Well, you're talking to one! That being said, historically speaking since the mid-1980s, the ratio of women in STEM and tech fields has dropped. There's this great article (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding) by the National Public Radio about why that's the case, and I would really recommend it to any of your readers.
But nowadays, we find that there is a rising tendency, partly owing to the attention of diversity gaps and partly owing to the will of the industry, for the other half of the population to try to become engineers too. They realized that the same ratio of women is going to be good at programming. But here's the thing: currently, the easiest way to get into tech and code learning is via the frontend. From my own experience, when I first tried to program it was just HTML and CSS, which is not even programming.
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