Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn...
by FT_intern on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:39PM
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> often results in a lack of experience and understanding in how to work with women
> There's a hell of a lot more challenges that women face in tech than outright harassment. Unintentional sidelining, the bar for proof being much higher, general unwarranted skepticism in their abilities, etc.
These are very bold claims of sexism. No one can really comment until they're somewhat proven.
My comment was mainly about a "bro" environment and harassment which is more tangible.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn...
by watwut on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:27AM
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If the bros in question assume I am competent, they are milion times easier to work with then dudes who assume my idead are bad without listening to them. Not that it would be exclusive. The things parent poster listed affect you career and ability to achieve more then sex jokes.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn...
by wolco on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:17AM
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Focus on the code. Who cares how others see you.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn...
by taejo on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:13AM
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How others see you determines whether they will cooperate with you, give you information you need to do your job, hire you, fire you, promote you, and how much they will pay you. Jobs where you can "focus on the code" to the total exclusion of dealing with other humans are practically non-existent.
Introversion is no guard against sexism, and I'd argue, it might actually make some facets of it worse. I don't think introversion in specific is bad, but the way it manifests in tech in this male-dominated industry often results in a lack of experience and understanding in how to work with women, and sets them up as very heavily other-ed.
Only in tech have I seen such a need for inclusiveness to be so stressed and pushed for - education, smaller businesses, and similar, it has been a much more natural thing.
There's a hell of a lot more challenges that women face in tech than outright harassment. Unintentional sidelining, the bar for proof being much higher, general unwarranted skepticism in their abilities, etc.