Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back

Tech bros’ attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages::Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back

  • 0x0English
    756·
    1 year ago

    Anecdotally, back in college most of the few women in my course got their grades using their breasts. Fact.

    The few women i’ve worked with professionally have been good professionals, some of the best even.

    Studies say™ is pretty damn irrelevant these days. If that inequality is true, governments should act. Most have legislation against this kind of legislation, but that’s it, paper. There are very few government officials actually controlling these issues proactively, if any at all. Plus few companies make salaries public and it’s not common to discuss paycheck.

    Ensuring neither the company nor the worker gets penalized for pregnancy/newborn care would probably help a lot.

    No, i’m not denying there’s a bias, there most likely is, especially in IT. But in paychecks, for that reason alone, not so much… for sure there are lots of people in the same company in the same role with the same skillset and generally about equal in all the job requirements who do have differences in their salaries, but i’d wager that’s more related to how well they negotiated during the hiring process.

    Edited to add "Anecdotally, ".

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      232·
      1 year ago

      When someone says “fact” I expect to see a fact. As in, evidence that makes something stated as a fact an actual fact. Otherwise it’s just an anecdote, and no better than the anecdotes in the article linked above.

      • 0x0English
        18·
        1 year ago

        An anecdote it is, then. I wonder if all the downvoters read past the first sentence.

        • Black616Angel@feddit.deEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Did you read past the first two words of the headline?

          It says “attitude towards female colleagues” not “pay for female employees”. And the article reflects that, your comment not that much…

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Some women will use their “charm” to get good grades, but it’s just a few i think. Never noticed it really outside of movies.

      Guys are easily influenced by it which is why it’s effective. Men have very low resistence to girls being charming.

      I have never seen it in the workplace myself but I’m sure it exists, because it’s really effective and women knows it.