Why Is There So Much Misogyny In The Tech Industry?
This article about Katia Moskvitch‘s struggle with how she is treated by the tech industry caught my attention. Having written before how my own mother faced horribly unfair treatment as a computer programmer in the 80s and 90s purely because she was a woman, this struck a nerve. It is sad that in the 21st century where tech jobs are growing and increasing all over, there is still this kind of behavior. Men have been threatened for years when women try to do the same job as them for a number of reasons. But tech is booming and there is room all. So what is going on? Blame the cavemen. One of the biggest obstacles is evolution. If you were to put together a timeline of women and men in the same workplace vs men being pretty much alone there, you would have a gigantic single line with a small dot at the end to indicate when men and women were working a lot of the...
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