Seattle now has a higher percentage of male citizens than any other major American city. Males aged 18 and older represent 52% of the Emerald Metropolis’s inhabitants.
That is fairly completely different from most U.S. communities the place girls, due to larger longevity, typically outnumber males. The issue that skews the demographics in Seattle and different cities the place high-tech is the main trade — resembling No. 2 San Francisco and No. 3 Austin, Texas — is the dominance of males in all these tech jobs.
Arguably, for these searching for a male associate who’s clever and well-paid, Seattle must be full of good prospects. Hurry, although. These sensible guys are busy designing synthetic intelligence programs that, already, are taking away entry stage tech jobs. As AI-driven unemployment takes increasingly jobs larger up the white-collar ladder, the tech bros could discover themselves again dwelling with mother and pop.
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