> I’m constantly aware of being female. When a coworker looks to a junior male engineer on the team for help instead of me, a senior engineer. This sounds like

> I’m constantly aware of being female. When a coworker looks to a junior male engineer on the team for help instead of me, a senior engineer. This sounds like it could easily be confirmation bias. There is a long list of hypothetical reasons why this might be the case, including the desire to not bother a senior person - whose time is more valuable - by pestering them with questions that a junior person could answer. If one is inclined to assume that this is a result of sexism, they are going to see imaginary sexism everywhere. > Or when someone corrects my code in a way that shows their default assumption is that I don’t know something rather than that I made a mistake. By some value systems, this would be the more generous assumption. If they were always assuming someone made a mistake (rather than simply being ignorant), one could equally well complain that this (the inverse assumption) was a result of sexism.