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Tech bros' attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages::Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It boils down to choice of career, work/life balance, experience level, and assertiveness.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

>spend the first 20 years of their lives conditioning girls to be demure
>mfw when women are not as assertive as men

We live in a fuckin society

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Discrimination is still a factor, but yeah, society corrals women into certain fields that don’t pay as much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is even better! When a field changes from male dominated to female dominated, incomes across the field plummet!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's happened in education and the inverse happened in computing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

You've got to be kidding.