Those were deleted?! Wow... I work in a predominantly female office, and don't hang around with the typical IT crowd, so as a man I have very little experience

Those were deleted?! Wow... I work in a predominantly female office, and don't hang around with the typical IT crowd, so as a man I have very little experience of sexism in the workplace or in IT (I'm the lone coder in a digital media team for a non-profit focused on adult learning). But I can definitely say it would be shocking and not at all tolerated in any group I'm involved in if someone were sexist in the ways those posts describe. As to this article, I love learning the history of things like this and how big societal changes like WWI and WWII change our perceptions of what is male or female dominated. We rarely realize our assumptions about what fits one gender or another. Just last night, my friend (male) was biking in a pink helmet and wearing matching pink shoes. Another friend's daughter, probably around 5 or 6 years old, asked "Why is your helmet pink?" to which he replied "Because I like pink. Dont you?" She smiled :) It's amazing how we can inadvertently influence children into this way of thinking without even realizing it. It's important to be mindful of that.