To everyone down voting me: Please don't turn hacker news into reddit. Extraordinary claims require substantial amount of evidence to have any weight. If sexis

To everyone down voting me: Please don't turn hacker news into reddit. Extraordinary claims require substantial amount of evidence to have any weight. If sexism was rampant and common through out the entire software development industry, more so than other industries, I think we would see a lot of evidence supporting that. Look at the evidence, and form your conclusions based on that. The reason why I discounted Uber is because Uber is just one company and is no where near representative of the industry as a whole. Silicon Valley is _also_ not representative of the whole industry. The evidence that people did provide: https://500hats.com/im-a-creep-i-m-sorry-d2c13e996ea0 https://500hats.com/im-a-creep-i-m-sorry-d2c13e996ea0 https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-black-box-of-inappropriateness/ https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-blac... That's one messed up guy. His post places much emphasis on the fact that this shortcoming is his own and that the rest of the company does not have the same weird ideals and that his co-founder + senior management are sound. One guy is not representative of the whole industry. https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/18/11262888/microsoft-gdc-2016-party https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/18/11262888/microsoft-gdc-20... This article is grasping on straws. I fail to see what a gaming conference has to do with the software development industry. Also, this presumes that the adult entertainment industry is sexist/misogynistic, which is a conflicted position to say the least. https://qz.com/659196/i-had-so-many-advantages-and-i-barely-made-it-pinterests-tracy-chou-on-sexism-in-tech/ https://qz.com/659196/i-had-so-many-advantages-and-i-barely-... I think this is the most honest and realistic view of the industry. Yes, I would say there is sexism in that women _are_ treated _differently_, in part simply due to the rarity of female software engineers. That is a far cry from the picture some are trying to paint.