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Almost one in five men in IT explain why fewer females work in the profession by arguing that “women are naturally less well suited to tech roles than men.”
Feel free to check the calendar. No, we have not set the DeLorean for 1985. It is still 2023, yet anyone familiar with the industry over the last 30 years may feel a sense of déjà vu when reading the findings of a report by The Fawcett Society charity and telecoms biz Virgin Media O2.
The survey of nearly 1,500 workers in tech, those who have just left the industry, and women qualified in sciences, technology, or math, also found that a “tech bro” work culture of sexism forced more than 40 percent of women in the sector to think about leaving their role at least once a week.
Additionally, the study found 72 percent of women in tech have experienced at least one form of sexism at work. This includes being paid less than male colleagues (22 percent) and having their skills and abilities questioned (20 percent). Almost a third of women in tech highlighted a gender bias in recruitment, and 14 percent said they were made to feel uncomfortable because of their gender during the application process.
It sounds fairly similar to racism, tbh
In case you haven’t heard the term before, you just discovered intersectionality.
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lol. Did you just accidentally do a woke?
No, that’s often the label people throw on me. It’s the condescension of thinking that word adds anything of value, and that it would be the first time anyone’s heard it. It’s the deviation of what I considered to be an authentic exchange into whatever ego-driven pointless parallel of mansplaining that was.
Excuse my ignorance but… what?
That really makes no sense at all. What word are you talking about? Intersectionality? Or woke? Because you’re wrong if you’re talking about intersectionality.
I am talking about intersectionality. It’s become a buzz word. Case in point, you really thought you were doing something by its mere mentioning, and “teaching me” about its existence.
Jesus. So you have decided that because people don’t represent intersectionality well that it’s now just a dumb concept even though you, naturally, touched on it by recognizing where sexism and racism intersect….
Are you just one of those people who gets stuck on the use of a particular language and rather than address an issue you just throw the whole conversation out? Like, come on… it being used as a buzzword does not make intersectionality unimportant at all.
You see how the bridge based on authentic painful experiences I was trying to have with the original commenter has now turned into nonsense about this term?
Why would you ever think someone on Lemmy hasn’t heard of this term before? Let’s say someone hadn’t, you really think the meaning behind it is something anyone over 10 wouldn’t have thought of by themselves by now?
Do you think “teaching” someone about this container of a term was really the right timing in this scenario?
Person 1: painful experience
Person 2: sounds similar to mine
Person 3: Let me presume you haven’t heard about this buzzword. You have now just discovered this great word thanks to meee. Nevermind that it’s an obvious idea that should occur to anyone with basic empathy and intelligence, but especially to people that have experienced prejudice. You are welcome.
Uggghh.
If you weren’t aware, mansplaining means a man explaining something that’s common knowledge in a condescending way, implying someone is ignorant or naive about the subject.
I think a lot of the confusion in this thread comes from you saying this in a way that sounds like you don’t know more and have for the first time made this connection. Down the thread, it’s clear you know exactly what you’re saying, and you seem annoyed that other users didn’t recognize that in the first place.
Yeah, now that you point it out, it looks like the number user baited the other into that pointless argument. Makes an obvious statement and gets offended when they get an obvious reply and accuses them of sexism.