I'm not a Woman in Tech
There&#x27;s sexism in tech, and to address it you have to call it for what it is. I&#x27;m glad her experiences are such that she hasn&#x27;t encountered these barriers, but other people have, and they need these words and spaces.<p>Take my previous job. Women were objectified on Slack. A woman was groped, though she didn&#x27;t report it out of concern for the repercussions. In meetings execs, male execs would only address&#x2F;look at the men, not the women. The company was 91% men, even though 24% of the workforce for those jobs in the area was female.<p>My friends in another high-profile company in the area were sexually harassed, though they felt like they couldn&#x27;t report it. They simply left the job.<p>I&#x27;ve mentored young women in high school interested in STEM in a program specific for them. The content is the same, but there&#x27;s value in having these to counter the obstacles specific to women that they&#x27;ll face.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen men, as a group, encounter the obstacles I&#x27;ve seen many female peers discuss. Not all women encounter these, but as a group, it&#x27;s undeniable that there&#x27;s extra obstacles.