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Eventually, I would work with salary information. More often than not I would see overwhelmingly that the male folks I was leading were making on average $20,000 more than me per year.

This information, along with the bitterness about the pose structure caused me to move laterally in the organization into a new position. I was damned good in that role and was promoted. But never a manager.

s/pose/power

Anyhow, I’m finding the same pattern happening again, and I don’t quite know what to do about it.

I feel like this is just the way things are, given that I’m a woman and the world frankly is ruled by white dudes who only listen to other white dudes.

I’m not talking to you all about this now to whine or complain to to share a truth: that very few women will ever break though to management in the tech industry.

And those that do, frankly, don’t really want any others to break through too. I think it mostly revolves around the concept of FUGM.

The hazing folks experience in the tech industry is gross, but particularly the hazing women experience is particularly grueling and results in in the result - no one else gets through with ‘ease’ or dignity or unbiased merit.