I have just finished reading a paper which looked at the way trans people who were also trans activists went about disrupting the norms and expectations at their workplace. There was much approval & no mention of tone-deafness.
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That is a good thing, I think, although it could get rather tiresome if you're just trying to do your job and your colleagues keep deconstructing gender binaries all over the place. Much better to do so in, say, a memo.
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This is the big problem for me. There are plenty of examples of full-on sexual harassment at Google and in tech more broadly, not to mention things like women being passed over for promotions or watching worse male coworkers get paid way more
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Example I like to use is, if you went to Flint Michigan and tried to explain to folks that the reason they weren't getting ahead was because their kids weren't in charter schools.
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I think the more salient factors in women's advancement are overt harassment and unfair pay. If you experience that every day, to suggest genetics is the reason you're not getting ahead is just really missing the mark.
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Flint is dealing with a huge number of issues from lead in the pipes. If you went there and thought charter schools were the big issue you'd have a lot of problems, even if you might have a case about charter schools.
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You're just using a lot of words to say you think he is wrong. He isn't tho and there is much evidence of gender differences in interest in engineering. If women are also actively discouraged or intimidated, show this.
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I'm not saying he is wrong! I'm using a lot of words to say I think the effects, if any, aren't as salient as having your boss grab your ass, exclude you from drinks at the bar, or wait an extra 6 months before giving you a raise
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And if you're someone who's dealt with those, first hand, as pretty much every woman I know in tech has, to suggest you're not succeeding because you're innately not intelligent is just sort of insulting
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