Interesting anecdote: so far 100% of the female engineers we've tried to hire who've turned us down (four so far...) did so in order to try to start their own startup, for at least a while. Of those two (that's 50%) raised outside capital so far, each just a few months after our offer.
I wonder if this is a fluke, or a result of the massive influx of women into greentech?
I would not have been surprised by this, at all, given the relative ratios in Environmental Engineering (don't quote me on this, but I perceived it as about 60:40 in favor of women) as compared to Computer Science at my alma mater (that was, ahem, not 60:40 -- closer to 4:96).
Edit for context: major American research university, 2000 - 2004. The bulk of people I knew at university would be late twenties or early thirties now.
I wonder if this is a fluke, or a result of the massive influx of women into greentech?