She didn't say that people dismissed her remarks, once she actually started speaking, or that they treated her unkindly after they realized she was a developer.

She didn't say that people dismissed her remarks, once she actually started speaking, or that they treated her unkindly after they realized she was a developer. The way I read it was that people assumed - before she opened her mouth - that she was a girlfriend/wife who came with. That's not offensive. That's just statistics.