yasminegrey
Yasmine
yasminegrey

STOP, how dare you use logic and facts. You better watch out, before someone gets their fweewings hurt!

And I’m feeling all kinds of win for understanding != without having to Google it. Yay!

I’m not a woman in tech per se; my hubby-to-be encouraged me to try some C# tutorials when I was bored one day (“You’re smart enough, and it might be fun.”) so I did, and here I am a month later on my second set of beginner Unity

They are favoured, on average, by 2:1. Yes, this doesn’t mean that in every case a woman is going to get a job, but it does in the average case.

Just no. Women are favoured 2:1 over men in hiring for STEM fields. Your anecdote is not evidence. The studies are. Companies desperately want to hire women. Why can’t they? Why does everybody assume this is because of sexual discrimination? It is because women are not choosing to go into STEM subjects. They go

Anecdote != data.

I call BS on THAT! Every IT position I have had in 25 years has treated women like GOLD! I have never seen any manager NOT white knighting for the women on the team.
I have NEVER seen any of the women put in overtime, holiday coverage or even have the same workload.
Trust me, I’ve worked with some UGLY women too.
SO,

Maybe women don’t actually like STEM as often as they prefer something else? I mean... we make an observation, then we immediately start blaming everyone and every thing except the actual women who are choosing not to go into the field? Maybe they are to blame?