Do you think women are embraced or actively driven out of Engineering?

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Wooed by companies looking for diversity, shunned by the men who actually work at these companies. I definitely think exposure to STEM from a young age is increasing women in the industry!

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"Shunned by men". That hasn't been my personal experience. I generally get along great with my teammates (but there's always that one annoying one LOL). You must feel like that in your position then?

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I'm 51. I got my BS in computer science from MIT in the early 90s. After 3 years of working as a software engineer, I was indeed driven out of it. I got pushed into presales and eventually product management.

At age 48 I switched careers back to engineering again . This time it's better. I'm no longer the only woman around. And I'm old enough that I'm no longer targeted as a sexual interest by my co-workers. (Instead, they kinda expect me to be the team mom.)

You wouldn't believe the sexist bullshit I've encountered in my 30 years in the tech industry, all from men who think of themselves as "nice guys" who "support women". But I'd have to say, I think the peak of ridiculous industry-wide sexism was 2012-2015, pre "me-too". Things have been getting steadily better since then, but sexist attitudes are still very prevalent.

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Personally, I've felt very "wooed" as a female. To the point where I sometimes wonder if I got a job because I was a chick or because I was good at what I do.


SE is my second career. Dad told me I'd be good at it but I thought computer science was assembly language and dark basements. 😂 Anyway, not sure if it's relevant but I bring it up to say that I think we'd have more women pursue the industry if they had more exposure to it and what it can be. But maybe that's just me being a Pollyanna?

Totally weeded out strategically before they threaten men on higher levels

I feel embraced by my team. Around 10 months ago, I was the first female developer (and the youngest) to be hired in our team. Now there’s one more in our team. We both are on different projects but feel that we are treated as good as our male counterparts. My manager told me from the very beginning that they are hiring more female developers to keep a balance in the male to female ratio in the team. He’s a strong believer of the fact that there has to be a good mix of male and female developers to bring out the best ways to solve a problem at hand, and I love that about him and our organisation for that matter!

Because I have a manager who believes in me (hard to find in our industry) it’s easy for me to visualise myself in a leadership position in tech in a few years time :)

I think it depends a lot on the company and its management. We've all probably seen the stories about how women engineers are treated in game development or some start-ups. But established companies with functional HR and legal teams generally keep things from getting too terrible. That said, you can always run into that one person that is somehow considered so valuable that they can get away with anything and they can cause some toxicity.

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