Philly’s female developers aren’t afraid of startups

There’s a couple of myths about Philly’s dev community that are not matching up with the first slew of results from Technical.ly’s recent survey of East Coast technologists.
We’ve been collecting data since last March and have crunched responses from 140 developers in Philly and Baltimore. Some of the results were surprising.
According to the data, Philly millennials are actually more likely to stick to their current job than their older peers, contrary to popular belief. The data shows that older job-leapers outpace millennials 61 percent to 58 percent.
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“The urban core is experiencing something of a youthful renaissance as more college students choose to stay with local employers,” the report reads.
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Another old story, the one about women in tech being more likely to join larger, more stable companies, also clashes with our data. Thirty-eight percent of surveyed women — compared to 29 percent of men — said they were explicitly interested in working for a company smaller than 30 people.
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“While organizations such as the PACT Foundation, AWE Ventures and TechGirlz have played huge roles in shaping an empowering environment for women entrepreneurs across the Philadelphia, it’s hard to overlook the scrappy, DIY attitudes held by Philly’s female tech leaders,” the piece states.