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nradov on July 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happened to all the female developers?

More likely the pay for psychologists dropped because the total supply of psychologists (both genders) increased faster than the population. Also the psychopharmacology industry has provided an alternative to psychologists.

philwelch on July 26, 2011 [–]

This is really the answer for all the fields. When women enter a field, men don't really leave. So the total number of practitioners goes up.

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