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Probably a lot less of a problem since so many tech dudes are dudes.
by onychomys 6y ago
Probably a lot less of a problem since so many tech dudes are dudes.
- rectang 6y agoSadly, that means that the few women in the tech industry experience even more concentrated abuse. Furthermore, there are even fewer people up the tech management food chain than in other industries who appreciate the circumstances of sexual abuse victims.
- bluGill 6y agoSort of. The lack of women in the field is a problem. However programmers are in demand which means that women have some awareness that they can scream and get away with it. A female in the arts who screamed can be unofficially blacklisted and not get anywhere, where as a female in programming can scream and find a different job. Also a lot of tech companies (but by no means all!) are aware of the issue. You can be reasonably sure a large tech company has as good anti-sexual harassment program and will generally take actions to prevent it. A female is about as safe in tech as any other job: not perfectly safe, as safe as possible.
- onychomys 6y agoI mostly meant in a probabilistic sense. It's much more likely that a male VC will be having a meeting with a male startup CEO than a female one (on either end!).
- hshshs2 6y agolots of fairly high profile harassment cases in the industry, especially if you expand it to include game dev