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Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces

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

NPC-131072 writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @08:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @08:56PM (#842058)

    Well, you have to take context into account on reputable. Especially these days, when the long march through the institutions has progressed so far. Lots of formerly reputable institutions have been taken over and turned into outrage mills. IEEE is reputable for things like electronics standards, but not so much for social bias studies. I haven't followed them closely for a while, but I suspect this was pushed by a small group of infiltrators pushing an agenda, as they've been targeting all the tech industry and institutions. They've been so blatant and aggressive about this shit that they've gone well past the "Boy who Cried Wolf" stage, including indulging in outright fraud, so I automatically treat any such claims with extreme skepticism, if not out outright disbelief.