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posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 10 2019, @12:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the unsurprising dept.

From ieee

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 DannyB on Friday May 10 2019, @06:24PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 10 2019, @06:24PM (#841972) Journal

    That risk technically exists between any two individuals. Regardless of gender. All it takes is for one to bring an accusation. Having opposite genders at a 1 on 1 is not required for an accusation to occur, whether genuine or not.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @07:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @07:04PM (#841997)

    That risk technically exists between any two individuals. Regardless of gender. All it takes is for one to bring an accusation. Having opposite genders at a 1 on 1 is not required for an accusation to occur, whether genuine or not.

    When a woman accuses a man, all the white knights and virtue signalers will come out to back the woman. When a man accuses someone, those same people will tell him to "fuck off, you pussy".

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by darkfeline on Saturday May 11 2019, @05:39AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday May 11 2019, @05:39AM (#842228) Homepage

    Nah, an accusation from a woman against a man carries far more weight, here in the glorious US. Meanwhile, an accusation from a man against a woman is worth its Earthly weight in helium, which is to say you had better have irrefutable evidence signed by the Pope, in triplicate.

    There is a 2017 documentary by a former feminist called The Red Pill. It documents some of the legal imbalances between men and women (women get lesser sentences for the same crimes, for example, and if you're a father trying to win child custody, I can only laugh because it's too depressing to cry).

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