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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: 2) by JNCF on Friday May 10 2019, @07:18PM (1 child)
I'm assuming you're the original AC, and not the second one. I honestly considered saying "just google it," or giving you a lmgtfy link, but decided to include a link to a valid citation because I felt it would make it more clear that my point about learning to search for information wasn't simply an attempt to evade providing one. I don't think providing citations for all claims is reasonable, there are just too many claims we make about reality in passing that are easy to verify to a reasonable level of certainty but cumbersome to include citations for. If I feel like a given piece of information is hard to find I try to include a source for it (or, if I can't remember one and I know that from prior experience, own up to my sketchy memory and the probabilistic doubts it should raise up front when making the initial claim). The line between "easy to find" and "hard to find" is a blurry one, as most (all?) lines are, but I try to walk it and I think it's reasonable to expect people to search for a well-phrased claim before asking for a citation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @11:22PM
Honorable intent but DFTT!
You should have stopped once they questioned your anecdote. You gotta live under a rock not to know that misogyny in tech is a real problem.