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I work on an engineering team of 15 with 5 women. None of whom would find it acceptable to be called “females”. That’s not “language policing” as described elsewhere in the thread. You don’t see men in the workplace being called “males”. “Female” and “male” as nouns are used to describe animals. It’s dehumanizing. Don’t do it.
Sorry.
Women do not tend to choose to study IT and engineering subjects and thus end up being relatively 'rare' in these types of roles. It's not down to companies. Changing that requires a long term plan focusing on primary and secondary education. University is too late. In the UK many schools encourage pupils to develop interests in all subjects these days and to teach them that they can be whatever they want, so that gi…
I guess in cities the ratios would be better. All the women in tech I know work in London.
I would say the UK is quite good at not gender shaming roles (Except nursing for males unfortunately)
One. But she isn't in a technical role.
I work on an engineering team of 15 with 5 women. None of whom would find it acceptable to be called “females”. That’s not “language policing” as described elsewhere in the thread. You don’t see men in the workplace being called “males”. “Female” and “male” as nouns are used to describe animals. It’s dehumanizing. Don’t do it.
Call it maybe 30-35% XX vs ~70% XY, with most of the XX concentrated mostly in QA, Finance, and Project Mgmt roles. Actual Infrastructure, Ops, and Dev roles are mostly men, and are mostly offshore'd at this point.
In fact, all of the women on the "technical side" (Dev/Ops/whatever) are entirely offshore resources, with 2-3 notable exceptions. None of the exceptions are American, either, for that matter (Indian/Russian/German).
I work on an engineering team of 15 with 5 women. None of whom would find it acceptable to be called “females”. That’s not “language policing” as described elsewhere in the thread. You don’t see men in the workplace being called “males”. “Female” and “male” as nouns are used to describe animals. It’s dehumanizing. Don’t do it.
Ha, it's amazing how you people always talk in the same way. Literally ordering other people what to do. Yet you object to being called the "language police". It's priceless.
I am sorry to anyone that finds the word "female" offensive. I just wanted to start an open dialogue, not offend anyone. Sorry.
I work on an engineering team of 15 with 5 women. None of whom would find it acceptable to be called “females”. That’s not “language policing” as described elsewhere in the thread. You don’t see men in the workplace being called “males”. “Female” and “male” as nouns are used to describe animals. It’s dehumanizing. Don’t do it.
That's orthogonal to whether it is correct information backing a warranted suggestion.
