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Triana

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9. Try being a "girl" in InfoTech.

Sat Aug 3, 2013, 01:19 AM

Aug 2013

Messing with servers, data, networks, routers, linux. That is MEN'S work. And the way women are treated in that field is little short of having the proverbial acid flung at her for DARING to even consider it. Go to a meeting: you're the only woman there. Go to a seminar, trade show or class: only woman or one of very very few. Post anything online or ask a technical question or make a technical comment: get overtly sexually insulted and berated seven ways from Sunday. Get called a bitch, a slut, and a dike. Get ignored and / or talked over top of in meetings, even when YOU are the Sr. person there.

Yep. The men hate you because you're a woman in THEIR field. The women hate you because you're competition. Mentors? Fucking forget that. No MAN is going to mentor a woman in InfoTech - never happened that I've seen in 35 years. And there are NO women in the field much to speak of. So...you're on your own. Good luck with that. Most women leave the field after a few years.

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How I Discovered Gender Discrimination [View all] XemaSab Aug 2013 OP

This is worth reading in its entirety. arcane1 Aug 2013 #1

CV is different from a resume. They use it in my field to Squinch Aug 2013 #28

Excellent ismnotwasm Aug 2013 #2

Funny, the same thing happened to me.. im1013 Aug 2013 #3

I learned that earlier on roguevalley Aug 2013 #4

A friend of mine worked in a bank and, year after year, pnwmom Aug 2013 #5

I am having to do that now...I was hired as a manager for a company HipChick Aug 2013 #10

Good luck! n/t pnwmom Aug 2013 #11

The other 2 male managers don't even have degrees, and I have more experience than both of them HipChick Aug 2013 #15

What kind of industry? The banking industry is known for this, pnwmom Aug 2013 #17

Wow!...The industry is IT, but the other two manager background is banking.. HipChick Aug 2013 #18

They have no degrees and no IT experience? They're probably too incompetent pnwmom Aug 2013 #19

k&r n/t RainDog Aug 2013 #6

It's real. It's been around forever. SheilaT Aug 2013 #7

Yep. Reminds me of Bianca White's resume... progressoid Aug 2013 #8

Try being a "girl" in InfoTech. Triana Aug 2013 #9

Yep, that's what I did for 15 years. im1013 Aug 2013 #12

Wow. Besides the attitude that women don't "do tech", jealous wives are probably... Triana Aug 2013 #13

Oh God I got so sick of the jealous wives thing MadrasT Aug 2013 #14

Yea the 24 x 7 shit is unnerving. NO WAY can anyone pay me enough to put up with that shit. Triana Aug 2013 #16

I was asked for a full length body shot this week HipChick Aug 2013 #21

Totally inappropriate request! Triana Aug 2013 #22

I am also going to put that in my complaint or at least demand to see if HipChick Aug 2013 #23

The first response I got im1013 Aug 2013 #25

Egh. There you go. Triana Aug 2013 #27

I actually miss it, though. im1013 Aug 2013 #24

You were lucky with that! Triana Aug 2013 #26

This has been my whole life HipChick Aug 2013 #20