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> Why do women in CS constantly seem to feel the need to tell everybody else they're a woman? Nobody cares. Because there is a fair amount of inherent sexism i
by junto 11y ago
> Why do women in CS constantly seem to feel the need to tell everybody else they're a woman? Nobody cares.
Because there is a fair amount of inherent sexism in many companies when it comes to female programmers.
My ex was the brightest (by a long way) on our undergraduate CompSci course. She topped the class of 250 students and got a 1st with honours. She received one of the highest grades in the department's history.
She was invited to start a Phd directly after the BSc. No masters was required. The university could see her potential and decided to embrace it. She published a number of papers related to script and language identification from document images, primarily focused on Asian writing systems.
After her Phd she went to work for a large US automotive company. It was a nightmare for her. Shitty sexist comments on a daily basis. A real toxic work environment and after 1.5 years she quit. She had no desire to go back into job in computer science.
To me that is a huge waste of talent and resource.
- tdkl 11y agoSo she just gave up and threw 30 years of her life down the drain ? Where's the persistence ? It's like "geeks" weren't ever ridiculed and harassed decades ago, before CS got "trendy and cool". That's also a price of equality, sometimes you just eat shit at a certain job.
- fao_ 11y agoIt's not equal if someone is the butt of jokes, and comments and jabs are directed at one person because of a feature that they have.
- mason240 11y agoBecause people in tech have never been the butt of jokes from the rest of society.
- CrystalCuckoo 11y ago> > Shitty sexist comments on a daily basis. A real toxic work environment > That's also a price of equality, sometimes you just eat shit at a certain job. You can't be serious. Not only is sexism the opposite of your supposed equality, it should never be tolerated in the workplace.
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- logicallee 11y agoHi, out of a personal interest I'd like to follow up with you with some questions. This is similar to an interview except I'm not a writer and would just like to understand this issue better. However, you don't list a contact. Could you either write to me at the contact that I do list, or list an email for me here? Thank you.
- LunaSea 11y agoSo after one bad experience she left a fields she graduated and got a Phd in ? It sounds like sexism wasn't the only issue there.
- JDiculous 11y agoIt's unfortunate that your ex had to work in such a toxic environment. She should definitely write about her experiences. As a male I'd be curious to learn about her story because there seems to be this constant allegation on the internet of misogyny in tech, but personally I've never witnessed it, and if anything it seems to be the opposite. Gender, however, is totally irrelevant to this article. It almost feels like the author is using her gender as clickbait to generate views. If sexism is indeed rampant in the tech industry, these kind of articles aren't going to make it any better.