Re:Infantilization of women in tech, by women in tech
by raxxorrax on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:27AM
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I am not a woman and I have a visceral aversion to it too.
It seems infantilizing or at least as nudging you into a artificial naive mindset that is hard or in my opinion impossible to reconcile with common corporate culture. While it might often seem more "open", I don't really buy into it.
I actually think women were in a better place in male dominated spaces before "women in tech" was popularized by the press, which aside from very few exceptions has been a pretty bad ambassador, if one is even needed.
I doubt my company would ever force employees to attend anything. It is understood that it is the current thing to signal to keep the kids happy. Or in this case the press and people active on social media.
Aside from that there is an understanding to be reasonably accommodating regardless of gender, race or disability, but this is seen as completely distinct to what is discussed on the topic of women in tech.
We are constantly looking for engineers and women apply just like men.
Our advertising department, consisting entirely of women, actually got into trouble with the advertising standards authority (Germany) because an ad was allegedly sexist (it was a bit tongue in cheek, but nothing that could shock todays teenagers at all, it doesn't even reach average tv shows). They certainly get teased for that since it is understood that the renewed zeal of the ad authority tries to target men because they read about problems in the press.
It seems infantilizing or at least as nudging you into a artificial naive mindset that is hard or in my opinion impossible to reconcile with common corporate culture. While it might often seem more "open", I don't really buy into it.
I actually think women were in a better place in male dominated spaces before "women in tech" was popularized by the press, which aside from very few exceptions has been a pretty bad ambassador, if one is even needed.
I doubt my company would ever force employees to attend anything. It is understood that it is the current thing to signal to keep the kids happy. Or in this case the press and people active on social media.
Aside from that there is an understanding to be reasonably accommodating regardless of gender, race or disability, but this is seen as completely distinct to what is discussed on the topic of women in tech.
We are constantly looking for engineers and women apply just like men.
Our advertising department, consisting entirely of women, actually got into trouble with the advertising standards authority (Germany) because an ad was allegedly sexist (it was a bit tongue in cheek, but nothing that could shock todays teenagers at all, it doesn't even reach average tv shows). They certainly get teased for that since it is understood that the renewed zeal of the ad authority tries to target men because they read about problems in the press.