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Female IEEE members say they face significant discrimination in the workplace, including demeaning comments, inappropriate job-interview questions, and exclusion from networking events and important business meetings.
Those were among the most common negative experiences reported by more than 4,500 members—associate member grade and above—from around the world who answered a survey IEEE conducted in 2017. The results were released last year.
Almost half of those surveyed worked in academia, and about 30 percent were from private industry. The rest worked for governmental or nonprofit institutions, or were graduate students or self-employed. The majority of respondents (65 percent) lived outside the United States.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @01:26PM (7 children)
I don't know any men whatsoever who didn't grow up with this on a daily basis, and so when it continues happening to them in their adult life no one even register the event. It's such a minuscule thing it doesn't matter, and it's ongoing. (Probably related to the amount of badgering and shit that men continually take from women.)
If women are so god damn sensitive that any human interaction is "harassment" then perhaps they should not be allowed into situations which they obviously _still_ cannot handle.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by acid andy on Friday May 10 2019, @02:24PM (6 children)
Oh there are plenty of men that can't take it either. They often get overlooked. Or sexist pricks like yourself tell them that they're being effeminate.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @03:08PM (5 children)
Exactly. And the sad thing is that the first ones being sexist and mock such men are their female counterparts.
(Score: 3, Funny) by acid andy on Friday May 10 2019, @04:32PM (4 children)
I can't even tell if you get the irony in your post or if you're genuinely that hypocritical.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @04:50PM (3 children)
AC is being observant. You are being hypocritical. The number of men who jump on to defend the feminine has almost 1 to 1 relationship with men who get offended for being called effeminate.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday May 10 2019, @05:06PM (2 children)
Got a citation? Large intestines don't count. FWIW offense can be given as well as taken, you know.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @11:31PM (1 child)
You OK with a citation from my liver then?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:25PM
So long as you don't pull it out of your ass.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?