&gt; One complaint I&#x27;ve heard from a number of women about tech environments directly relates to this; a social butterfly who organizes parties and hackathons has lower status than the fat neckbeard who fixed all the performance problems.<p>Interesting perspective. On reflection, since I&#x27;d find any pressure to attend stuff like parties or hackathons and such kind of annoying, even if attendance isn&#x27;t strictly required <i>and especially</i> if they&#x27;re outside normal work hours and&#x2F;or project schedules aren&#x27;t adjusted to account for them, it likely <i>would</i> lower my opinion of someone if they kept advocating for or organizing that kind of thing. Even under the best circumstances I doubt it&#x27;d <i>raise</i> my opinion of them.