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> More than half of the respondents said they either had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships or knew another woman who had a negati

> More than half of the respondents said they either had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships or knew another woman who had a negative experience, such as being subjected to gender-biased interview questions and inappropriate remarks… > They described instances where a male interviewer flirted with them during the interview, sent an unsolicited photo of himself, asked if they had a significant other, or made sexual remarks in their presence. The respondents also reported feeling dismissed or demeaned because of their gender. One respondent was asked why she would want to go into tech as a woman; in another instance, a male interviewer laughed when the candidate said she saw herself becoming a software engineer in five years. These quotes were taken from the article. The problem seems to be greater than just tone of voice.

Grustaf 7y ago
And the HackerNews comment section is full of presumably mostly male programmers that complain about interviews, so it is fair to assume that people in general are unhappy about it. But this survey fails completely at establishing any sort of evidence or even indication of discrimination, since there is no control group.
MrUnderhill 7y ago
Not to diminish the issue at hand, but your quote (or rather, what you left out) makes it sound worse than it is. The full sentence is: > More than half of the respondents said they either had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships or knew another woman who had a negative experience, such as being subjected to gender-biased interview questions and inappropriate remarks, or observing a noticeable lack of diversity when they interacted with company representatives during the interview process.
- DHPersonal 7y ago
  I considered leaving it in, but I figured it would be a trigger point for people to brush the rest of the sentence off as unimportant just because they didn't like one part of it. I'm not sure if you proved my point or if I inadvertently fulfilled my own prediction.

Grustaf 7y ago

And the HackerNews comment section is full of presumably mostly male programmers that complain about interviews, so it is fair to assume that people in general are unhappy about it. But this survey fails completely at establishing any sort of evidence or even indication of discrimination, since there is no control group.

MrUnderhill 7y ago

Not to diminish the issue at hand, but your quote (or rather, what you left out) makes it sound worse than it is. The full sentence is: > More than half of the respondents said they either had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships or knew another woman who had a negative experience, such as being subjected to gender-biased interview questions and inappropriate remarks, or observing a noticeable lack of diversity when they interacted with company representatives during the interview process.

DHPersonal 7y ago
I considered leaving it in, but I figured it would be a trigger point for people to brush the rest of the sentence off as unimportant just because they didn't like one part of it. I'm not sure if you proved my point or if I inadvertently fulfilled my own prediction.