Re:Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimi...
by KyeRussell on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:29AM
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Honestly…I’m happy to operate under the assumption that tech has a sexism issue purely based on my personal experience with coworkers, superiors, peers online and at conferences, etc. I’ve never even worked in Big Tech! The stories I hear from friends that do, sound ridiculous. I’ve seldom seen a study that meets the standards of objective-ish academic rigour that I feel could even remotely capture all the nuanced ways in which women are (in my experience) screwed by our shitty culture.
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Re:Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimi...
by Manuel_D on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:08AM
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If I applied the same line of thinking, I'd operating on under the assumption that tech has a sexism issue against men based on my experience of being explicitly directed to discriminate against men, and being given gender quotas vastly different from industry representation - often demanding as much as 2x the representation of women. That's a lot more concrete to than a hand-wavy "it's nuanced" explanation.
But rather than listening to anecdotes, I'll listen to evidence, which also indicates that tech at best does not discriminate against women and likely discriminates in favor of them.