I have experienced the oposite in one of my previous jobs, multi-national company. Hiring just based on sex. In my current job for local company, male colleague who was terrible at his job was sacked within 2 months, female coleage was sacked for the same reason after 2 years. My current boss is a woman (and she is a good boss). We have ratio of 70:30, but past 3 hires were women. So these titles are just clickbait to make people angry because they are simplifying or straight disinforming.
I don’t work in tech but I do spend a lot of time in overwhelmingly-male-dominated spaces and this is absolutely not shocking.
It’s more than half for sure.
There’s no way this ain’t more than half still. I’d even wager all women in tech specifically have had to deal with at least once in their career.
Fuck off with that. More than half the women I’ve worked with have experienced discrimination in meetings where I’ve witnessed it. Big tech is a disgusting boys club.
I’m pretty sure all women do in every job.
I saw it one time and had to laugh. It was a interview and a woman interviewer who asked the interviewee a tech question. The interviewee then said aren’t you from HR?"
Read: Half of women in tech do not realize they’ve faced discrimination.
FTFY
That it’s less than half is an achievement at this point. A sad and fucked up achievement, but an improvement nonetheless.
I wonder how tightly focused the term “gender discrimination” is. Not every woman I know in my company has been discriminated against for job opportunities, and not every woman I know in my company has experienced sexual harassment, but if “discrimination” includes harassment then I would guess it is above 50%.
You don’t know when it happens. After working for a very, very ling time, I’ve realized that hidden relationships are all around you. Those networks absorb opportunities that you could have. The Good Ole Boys club is real shit.
I know my pre-COVID office had a floor of nearly 200 engineers, and only 3 women.
Regardless of policy, bias is going to happen at that scale, usually not in favor of the women. Honestly makes me sad how tough it must be.
Every woman I’ve worked with (in software engineering) has been excellent at her job, presumably because the ones who aren’t don’t last in the industry at all.
When I was younger, every time I’d attend a women leaders in STEM panel, they would inevitably ask them about hurdles and if they ever faced gender discrimination etc. Most often their answer was some version of “no”. And it’s relevant to point out they were most often tomboy/autistic coded af. I still think about how it never occurs to them that they were perfect examples of survivorship bias, and I’d rather hear the stories from the women who weren’t so lucky.
I wonder if remote work has had a positive effect since men are spending less time in the room with women.
Yeah I was sure it was more like 100%
I’m willing to bet that the real number is actually somewhere above 50%, they just didn’t have enough respondents who recognized and reported it to the survey
I was thinking the same thing. Laughing it off or ignoring it, isn’t the same as it never happening.
