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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: -1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @02:24PM (2 children)
I do not believe there is any industry in which some guy won't be discrediting a female that shows up and attempts to dilute his talent and education by doing a worse job than him as a diversity hire.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @03:03PM
Unfortunately everybody knows more and more about plenty of ${PEOPLE} that shows up as an ${EQUALITY:${SLOTTEDIN}} hire and dilute other's talent and education by doing a worse job if any significant at all.
The real difference between ${SEX} subjects on ${BOTH} sides is the kind of ${WHINING:${VICTIMHOOD}} behaviour of each class.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday May 11 2019, @05:26AM
-1 Insightful, now that's a rare sight.
Seriously though, I have heard, anecdotally, from female coworkers whom I respect that they hate "quota" hires the most. Which makes sense, because the number one effect of prioritizing hiring unqualified people with trait X is that all people with trait X are perceived as unqualified. Give me qualified coworkers, I don't care about their gender, sex, race, religion, genus or species. But don't give me idiots.
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