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The 5 Most Popular Programming Languages Among Female Developers
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Computer science is growing in popularity among young women, according to HackerRank's 2018 Women in Tech Report. "As software is increasingly pervasive in our lives, it's more important than ever for builders to be representative of the people we're impacting," Gayle Laakmann McDowell, founder and CEO of CareerCup, writes in the report.
Java, JavaScript, C, C++, and Python top the list of the most common programming languages in which female developers say they have proficiency. (The report does not say whether these top preferences are different for men.) These are the same languages that are most in-demand for roles across the front-end, back-end, and full-stack, according to HackerRank's 2018 Developer Skills Report.
The most popular industries for female developers to work in are technology (53%), finance (11%), and education (5%).
However, across all industries, women are far more likely to be in junior positions than men, regardless of their age, the report says. Women over age 35 are 3.5x more likely to be in junior positions than men.
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