No surprise here: Sexism at high flying Uber (Bell: school, wages)

[ShiverMeTimber]

I read the article and I'm skeptical. It makes no mention of a specific example so I assume it's petty. This reeks of a woman wanting exposure and settlement $$$.

[intok]

Originally Posted by WizardOfRadical

Tech bros gonna tech bro.

This is the new dominant bay area culture.

It was created by their mothers pushing their daughters away from programming, which was originally a female dominated field, one of the most interesting women I've ever talked to used to be a programmer at Bell Labs and still had boxes of the punch card software that she wrote herself as well as some ancient tech gems, like a hand woven ferrite core ram board. Yes, a board about the size of a notebook, with the copper wires woven through tiny ferrite rings it by hand, which you guessed it, was also made by women due to the size constraints on the diameter of the fingers and manual dexterity necessary to do the work.

But it wasn't just programming, it was everything in the maths and sciences that girls where pushed away from, because they where supposed to focus on being more ladylike and to find a husband to make all the money.

[likealady]

Originally Posted by ShiverMeTimber

I read the article and I'm skeptical. It makes no mention of a specific example so I assume it's petty. This reeks of a woman wanting exposure and settlement $$$.

You're kidding right? Did you read the blog post linked in the article?

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by charbo

This isnt the 80s tech industry anymore. Think Wall Street transported to the Bay Area. Do you think you would have been able to 'face things head on' in Wall Street of the 80s and gotten anywhere? Nah. Silicon Valley culture is not the same anymore - it's filled with sexist douchnozzle cretins.

Well, I was kind of a ***** back then and often oblivious to whatever other people were doing so maybe. I didn't really like people as a rule, or care what happened in the office if it wasn't "in my face".

I get that some places can just be toxic, I've seen that myself for various reasons.

[zitsky]

Originally Posted by WizardOfRadical

East Coast transplants have totally ruined the bay. It is very sad.

You're naive if you think locals are saints. Or if you think sexism is new.

[jade408]

Originally Posted by ShiverMeTimber

I read the article and I'm skeptical. It makes no mention of a specific example so I assume it's petty. This reeks of a woman wanting exposure and settlement $$$.

Did you read her blog post? She had dozens of incidents from day 1.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by ShiverMeTimber

I read the article and I'm skeptical. It makes no mention of a specific example so I assume it's petty. This reeks of a woman wanting exposure and settlement $$$.

Fortunately, the NY Times editors and staff aren't as cynical, and do better research and analysis. Yesterday's article is the second one this month they've published about the issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/t...ture.html?_r=0

[cnrledsls]

Originally Posted by WizardOfRadical

East Coast transplants have totally ruined the bay. It is very sad.

The lady who defrauded (with the help of her VC's) the whole world recently was born and raised in Palo Alto. It's all over the news.

[boulder2015]

Originally Posted by jade408

Did you read her blog post? She had dozens of incidents from day 1.

Check out his other posts. Classic MRA/pepe/incel...

[WizardOfRadical]

Originally Posted by zitsky

You're naive if you think locals are saints. Or if you think sexism is new.

The bay has plenty of home grown autistic people, but the influx of autistic transplants with no social skills does not help.

Thesr tech bro companies need to monitor employee mental health better.