I'm not sure if I should agree.
From my observations, for example in our company, we have over 50% of IT managers being women, our director - site manager is woman and guess what?
They are all far over 30
And they all were normal technical IT stuff before.
When it comes to appreciation, there might be something in it.
Here we don't have so many women on "low level" IT positions (not managers), so we actually "have to" appreciate those that we have.
Maybe if we didn't they would leave? Who knows? We'd rather not to try!
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