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Tech is the best industry for women

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Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by Rjevski »

Kinda off-topic but I have to agree with the "it doesn’t matter where you come from" and myself am very grateful to the tech industry for that. If it wasn't the case I'd probably still be working at a fast-food chain currently, as in my country without years of formal education you're pretty much considered worthless - if it wasn't for tech I'd be doomed.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by hammerzeit »

Please, before this degrades into the inevitable shouting match, let's please consider that there are two things that can both simultaneously be true:

1.Tech is less bad than many, many other industries. I can personally speak to overt, even illegal sexism in the field of medicine at a level that would cause riots in tech. I’ve heard similar stories in academia, to say nothing of fields like manufacturing. We live in a sexist society, and the professional world reflects that.

2. Being “less bad” than other industries does not mean we don’t have an obligation to do better. We as an industry need to be doing more to make sure that the vast majority of stories are like this one. We’re not there yet.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by tickthokk »

I'm curious if this was a response letter to the other female-tech blog post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868390).

You don't seem like a stick in the mud, which makes me believe that the other poster is. Not a fair comparison, I admit. I don't know either of you, so that's just the impression I get from these two separate posts.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by burkaman »

tickthokk wrote: post #7

I'm curious if this was a response letter to the other female-tech blog post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868390 ). You don't seem like a stick in the mud, which makes me believe that the other poster is. Not a fair comparison, I admit. I don't know either of you, so that's just the impression I get from these two separate posts.

What do you mean by "stick in the mud"? Do you not see anything wrong with what the other poster experienced?

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by mistermann »

Well this should certainly make for some interesting dialogue.

I suspect there are some important truths in this post, and my intuition is perhaps a bit of naivete as well, it's hard to say for sure. I think humankind has a decade or two of suffering to go through before we can start to have conversations at a level above adolescence on topics such as this, but by then how many other things will have changed?

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by snarf21 »

hammerzeit wrote: post #4

Please, before this degrades into the inevitable shouting match, let's please consider that there are two things that can both simultaneously be true: 1.Tech is less bad than many, many other industries. I can personally speak to overt, even illegal sexism in the field of medicine at a level that would cause riots in tech. I’ve heard similar stories in academia, to say nothing of fields like manufacturing. We live in…

I think your second point is the thing that is it always so easy to gloss over. "better" or "less bad" are very relative. In the end, the Golden Rule is the target but the reality is that there are a lot of people that suck and have no concept of self reflection.
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