> 6. Assuming women they meet are in non-technical roles. I like to think I am not a sexist person (intentionally or not), but this is one I have to make an ac

> 6. Assuming women they meet are in non-technical roles. I like to think I am not a sexist person (intentionally or not), but this is one I have to make an actual silent effort to get right. It's just that the statistics are unfortunately very skewed. Some 80%+ of software engineering roles at big companies go to men, but for non-technical roles it can be 50% women or more. So if you meet a woman it is more likely that she is not an engineer. But statistics don't make assumptions acceptable. I try to make sure I don't assume anything about people I meet around work (don't assume a man is an engineer, don't assume a woman is not). Makes me cringe when I hear this conversation: Man: "So what do you do here?" Woman: "I'm a SWE on _______" Man: "Oh really?"