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Remember the 'brogrammer' movement a few years back? Companies were actually starting to advertise for brogrammers to the point where I called out a company on
by mattmanser 11y ago
Remember the 'brogrammer' movement a few years back? Companies were actually starting to advertise for brogrammers to the point where I called out a company on HN doing it.
What other industry have you heard of that came up with such a sexist movement like that?
There definitely was a problem, though I think it's getting better. The big problem was that nerd culture, which was predominantly male until recently, was very closely tied to programming for several decades, making the industry fundamentally hostile to people not from that white/asian nerd male culture. Brogrammers were a bit of a backlash against that, but in a still male-orientated way.
- thirdtruck 11y agoAnd even then, programmers of Asian descent apparently get sidelined into the purely technical work, to the exclusion of managerial or the like. EDIT: s/those/then/.