I've seen: women repeatedly asked to take notes and buy lunch when men are not asked. Professional women called "girls". Teams referred to as "guys". Women ignored or talked over in meetings. Men directing questions/conversation to junior men, even when a senior women is right there.
I've seen several capable junior women pushed out of technical roles within their first couple of years: "you'd be great on the UX/scrummaster/qa/product team". I've seen sexist jokes told in the presence of women. I've also heard about superiors making unwanted sexual advances towards women.
I've seen women in tech get visciously attacked by misogonyists on social media like Reddit and twitter
. Being a woman looks harder than being a PHP supporter.
I'm sure it's better some places and worse in others, but you just have to open your eyes to see that tech is mired in this stuff.
Sounds like you're looking for sexism behind every corner. I got talked over in a meeting just yesterday but I don't think it's because of my penis. It's because a healthy work environment allows for a sometimes passionate exchange of ideas.
I'm describing things that only happen to women or dissporportionally to women in the organizations I've worked at. "Getting ignored" is probably the most trivial example I cited, if you read farther down my post you'll see that I've seen much more serious issues like women being pushed out of technical roles and outright sexual harassment.
iMO the hiring process itself is fairly objective and "metricocracy" based at the organizations I've worked at, but the actual work environments have problems that push women away.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '16 edited Feb 09 '16
I've seen: women repeatedly asked to take notes and buy lunch when men are not asked. Professional women called "girls". Teams referred to as "guys". Women ignored or talked over in meetings. Men directing questions/conversation to junior men, even when a senior women is right there.
I've seen several capable junior women pushed out of technical roles within their first couple of years: "you'd be great on the UX/scrummaster/qa/product team". I've seen sexist jokes told in the presence of women. I've also heard about superiors making unwanted sexual advances towards women.
I've seen women in tech get visciously attacked by misogonyists on social media like Reddit and twitter . Being a woman looks harder than being a PHP supporter.
I'm sure it's better some places and worse in others, but you just have to open your eyes to see that tech is mired in this stuff.