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It's there in IT industry also; Girls silently suffer / quit jobs :(

• lostgame 6y ago
  While it is there, being female and in both industries myself I have to say that it's like comparing a cup of water to a bucket in terms of the sheer amount of sexual abuse that goes on in the music industry. And I say that as a victim of IT workplace sexual assault, and I unfortunately did exactly as you posted. :( The music industry is harrowing. It's not to discount the very real trauma myself and others have gone through in the IT workplace - it sucks, it's shitty and it shouldn't be. However, the last decade especially, I've noticed IT has gotten progressively and better at this, and if women in my workplace or previous two were seriously mistreated everyone would be shocked and people would be immediately fired. I don't have a lot of time to list off the horror stories right now, but pretty much everything you've heard about abuse in Hollywood is true, and it's much worse than you've heard. I guess the abuse is just so much more systematic, established, and regular in the music industry, and; despite #metoo - it is unfortunately not progressing or evolving in the way that I have personally witnessed the IT industry do over the last decade. It just seems like more people have been exposed. There's some bad apples in IT but tbh very often you do hear about them, and it destroys companies and careers. The good apples in the music industry are the exception, not the rule, and in IT that playing field is incredibly more even.
  • golemiprague 6y ago
    IT was always normal, it didn't make any "progress" except from the general "progress" that the whole society did. It wasn't different to any other industry 40 years ago and not today. The only grief women had is that there were not enough of them, which is still the case but the ones who worked in the industry whether as programmers or other peripheral jobs were treated exactly like they would in a law office or a bank or other jobs with more women. The funny thing is that the whole agenda causing women to think as if this industry is so bad was pushed by the actual bad industry, the media, film and music industry. An industry which let hip hop artists say the most horrible things about women for years, that actually raped and traded success for sexual favours as a common trading coin. They misdirected the fire to IT and mid America and everybody swallowed it hook line and sinker.
  • mywittyname 6y ago
    I'm sorry that happened to you. Thank you for speaking out. I understand that it can be very difficult to talk about, but it does help other people notice issues that don't directly effect them. And bringing attention to those issues is the only way to solve them.
  • known 6y ago
    Yesterday a Court in India gave a landmark Judgement to protect dignity of women; https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/delhi-court-acquits-priya-ramani-in-mj-akbar-defamation-case https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/delhi-court-acqu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priya_Ramani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priya_Ramani