It's interesting how the author reads the male behavior as indicating authority/confidence/etc. I usually just read it as poor social skills and general lack of awareness.
Your company’s Slack is probably sexist
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Re: Your company’s Slack is probably sexist
#12I've just logged into our Slack.
Seems we only share links to interesting GitHub repo's, issues on stuff we use and interesting blog posts about code/software architecture and devops related stuff.
Zero sexist messages.
But here's the thing: All male team. All white aswell. Are we an exception?
Re: Your company’s Slack is probably sexist
#13The article makes an observation that online communication favors a typically male communication style. That does not make you, your coworkers, or your company bad or inconsiderate people. There is no reason to respond defensively to an article like this, because it is not an attack. It is an observation on how modern work environments may favor one style of communication over another, and what role that gender socia…
> male communication style. I'm sorry but WTF does this even mean? Every individual person has it's own communication style AFAIK.
Exactly, it is already sexist for the author to make such a generalisation.