There was a lot of self-congratulation going around when the new SmartAsset report on best cities for women in tech came out in May. The District was (for the second year running) the far-and-away winner.

The report looked at 58 of the largest American cities and narrowed that number down to a top 15 based on the percentage of women in the tech work force, the gender pay gap in tech, income after housing costs and three-year tech employment growth. D.C., apparently, does really well by these metrics. As the report proudly declared — “women in the District hold over 40% of tech jobs and earn roughly the same average income as men.”

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