Autistic here: I’m not even being let to work in my field, because people think autism = intellectual disability, and therefore I only play games on the PC, and all my achievements are due to some Forrest Gump style meddling from my mother.
all my achievements are due to meddling from my mother
Could be an impostor syndrome?
Still, that sucks and shouldn’t be the case. Plenty of autistic people I know completely rock at their stuff, and overall do not perform worse.
That low?I honestly would have thought it’d be higher.
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.
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.
One doesn’t exclude the other. Discrimination of women in tech is more widespread and hence more talked about.
But it must be noted that workplace discrimination of men exists as well: in some cases, it’s because many jobs are women-dominated, in the others, it’s because of the bosses pushing their stuff. Latter seems to be your case, and it’s valid and shared by many men.
which industry? tech is heavily Male dominated, although the confrences around me have a ton of female conference go-ers, that maybe a unique situation, since its people from all over the country and other countries descending on this area.
i tried to get into one where is heavily biased in favor of woman, biotech, health. even the buildup while in college was benefiting them way more than men, most of the voluntary labs are dominated by women solely, and have a sole preference, and i heard down grapevine the male lab manager was preferentially only choosing women. even during job hunts, they are pretty much hiring them all the time, since it fits with the 6:4 ratio in bio degrees earners, and up to masters level, but not PHD, at least for younger women than millineals, since i know some women who have bio or try to get bio at this generations couldnt get into it right away.
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.
In many women-dominated jobs, the situation is reversed, with men commonly being discriminated against.
However, for all its gender equality gains, tech remains relatively male-dominated and discriminative towards women.
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.
they probably dont want to say anything, or play off minor issues as a nothing, probably dont want to face potential retribuition from men, or future job opportunities, aka “dont rock the boat.”
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 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?"
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.
Read: Half of women in tech do not realize they’ve faced discrimination.
FTFY
