Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by sokoloff on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:49PM (#14674852)

This. In taking a new role several years ago, I had selected a woman to be part of my new leadership team. I was counseled by a peer (of sorts) to never take a closed-door 1:1 meeting with her; that it was simply too risky.

How the hell am I supposed to run a department without ever having a closed-door 1:1 meeting with 1/4 of my leadership team? I ignored the warning and things of course played out just fine, but it did give me some pause that people would think that simply having a meeting would be too risky to consider.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by likelynew on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:59AM (#14675802)

I also think the same way. In my experience, most single guys can be divided into two categories, ones who have predatory attitudes for girls or the ones who has fear talking to females. Both are actually bad for the girls.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by wruza on Saturday July 01, 2017 @04:59AM (#14676169)

Your experience seems to be unique, because there are lots of single guys who don't have both. As if you stated that being single is a deviance at least.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by dreamdu5t on Saturday July 01, 2017 @12:25PM (#14677735)

I forgot it's perfectly fine to objectify men but not women.

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