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If we're going to trade ancedotes: I worked at Microsoft, with lots of female co-workers in technical and non-technical roles. I never once hear a DE, SDE, SDE
by Aaronontheweb 14y ago
If we're going to trade ancedotes: I worked at Microsoft, with lots of female co-workers in technical and non-technical roles.
I never once hear a DE, SDE, SDET, or any other technical person say anything remotely along the lines of "women suck at programming because they're women." Not once, amongst the hundreds of people I worked with there. That's an anecdote - take it for what it's worth.
- pjscott 14y agoThat's what you would expect to observe if either (a) there were negligible sexism, or (b) the sexism was present, but "more nuanced and subtle" in its form. Therefore your observation does not count as strong evidence for distinguishing between these hypotheses. It counts as stronger evidence against widespread overt sexism.