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Originally Posted by just_grindin
I personally think it's a combination of factors imprinted intentionally or unintentionally by parents and society on to children. Humans are social creatures and even if we don't hear explicit messages we can often gather social behavior from social interactions in our daily lives as well as from popular culture especially in the Internet age.
I would assume some of the most extreme parts of the anti-diversity culture also happen to be interested in tech (no correlation just by pure chance/numbers) and come up with a lot of the most hostile environments, messages, and interactions for women and this is applied to a broader spectrum of tech employees because it fits the narrative of white socially awkward male.
Not trying to down play how systemic the problem is I just think it's easy to apply the anti-woman narrative to the tech employee stereotype.
Who here was alive in the 1980s? (raises hand).
Think about what the world was like back then:
Nerds -- all men, all computers.
All tech stuff was very explicitly advertised to boys.
Movie tropes: Hacker sitting in an unlit room with a jar to pee in.
Even in the 90s, knowing anything about computers was considered super nerdy.
So, no, women weren't exactly keen on sitting in a dark room, peeing in a jar, not showering for 3 months, and growing a long beard.
It's a contrast to how things were before the 1980s, where computer programming was dominated by women, but that's a totally different story.
Even though society is making large strides to remove barriers, we still have people 30+ who were not only advertised to, but raised by a generation who was advertised to as well. The old-guard has to die, and eventually, this new generation where social norms are less beholden to that kind of advertising will take over.
With all that said, only 30% of all job categories are 55 / 45 or "more even" split. I think it's silly that computer tech is the whipping post on this debate....
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Anecdotally where I work but before I worked there we had an incident where a male and female coworkers were having sex together and it got put of hand and spilled over into work when the "relationship" didn't work out.
To this day department of all men almost always blame the woman for the problems that spilled over and how crazy she was and all I hear from them about the guy is he was an idiot for doing it with a smirk and a head shake. We haven't hired a woman in our department since then just a bunch of white men. Don't know if that is a coincidence or not as I don't know what our applicant pool is for hiring but it always makes me wonder.
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You don't want to say it, but you know this is exactly why your department is all male.