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That's a good joke when you're at the car lot buying a new car. "Hang on I gotta ask my wife if this is okay, just kidding I know better."
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This is the bp sexual strategy. Male engineers will never be chad. They see females being nice to the males that extend and promote employment opportunities to them, often with less merit, and decide that to get that pussy they need to do the same. Just add a few abstract concepts like kindness, harmony, growth mindset to mask the fact that they're accepting incompetence for a chance at pussy and you have the software industry.
I'll just collect my paycheck and smile.
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Ill agree totally. OP is spot on.. as well as /r/obstinatebeagle.
From my point as a former "rock star" software engineer / developer with 20 years under my belt on 2 continents and several well known brands.
It used to be very male 10-15 years ago, now that more population is "glued" to screens programming become a "trade" and not just "niche skill".. back then only the best and capable would get a job.. and like /u/obstinatebeagle mentioned it is right now something around 10 in 100 would be hired and from that 10 you will rarely see a woman. I have met very capable and very sharp women devs / engineers with excellent work ethic, they are just as rare as male nurses I guess.
What's huge issue is right now is gender quotas that are encroaching on a meritocracy.. when under-skilled woman would get a job before a capable guy and that will lower the whole teams quality but will get a HR +1 to diversity. Another pure cancer programs I have experienced.. "women in STEM" initiative in one of biggest corporations I have worked.. boils down to.. we don't have enough programming women available so lets join this team with a document management team (99% women) and viola! office worker or software engineer.. both work on computers they're both in STEM.. Let's brag about it now to the media.
About this "pussification" of nerdy workforce.. that is a very visible thing and it is almost everywhere. Almost autistic guys who sit still for hours banging keyboard and producing MBs of code worth millions would grind to almost stop when a woman join the team.. They will awkwardly try to "win her" in the same time pretending that they just coworkers.. and that will result in a situation similar to friendzone.. let's call it coworkerzone.. if a guy in question tries to overstep this boundary he will be reported to HR and get in trouble imminently labelled creep and what's worst all his friends from work will run to this girl to comfort her proclaiming they never suspect he is such a creep.. while they would do exactly the same thing its just he was first to muster some courage. That's toxic. And the fault is on both sides.. them being absolutely "thirsty betas" and girls using that instinctively and turning into bee queens when drones do the work and she just sits there and looks pretty.
About "pussywhipped" .. its everywhere.. its sad but it became a cultural norm. I work in the regular office right now.. left hi-tech/hardcore IT and went to a small town when I work in gov building. Still doing programming money is way to low, but the scale of work is tiny, stress is low and pension plan is excellent. (Ron Swanson is my spirit animal). I am observant and I hear things around the office, most men married and with children would have their lives stripped of almost everything that does not involve her and kids... and yeah.. they would have to ask permission.. pathetic.
What is most interesting.. I never, ever heard of woman in the office in casual conversation saying something similar.. like ... "Ill have to ask husband".. ever.. well not until very recently.. and that is just one single case.. A girl they recently hired is from deep south.. like cowgirl boots and accent and the whole package.. she is around 30, has a kid in school and is also fat and eats all day her desk.. but.. when a group of people were planning to go to lunch.. she said she cant go because her hubby might not like that.. shocking.. most women in the office think she is in abusive relationship.. until.. office picnic happened.. turns out her hubby is a whole package as well: guy with a cowboy hat, pickup truck all muscle over 6ft really handsome also Latino.. so all office "ladies" were swooning over him and all gossip went into just one subject.. why he is with her? and that she is waaay out of his league. Mind you.. that was women talking. Men did not care.
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I work in R&D and the only females are two secretaries and a couple on the assembly line.
We had one SW female engineer (we employ software, electronics and mechanical engineers) the last 3 years- a student working part time.
I don't even see female candidates.. Thank god, we gotten used to all male environment, insert a female to a space were people talk non-stop: dirty jokes, motorcycles, geopolitics, military and football. She'll go insane in a week.
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I work for a company of ~170 people. Here is only one female software engineer.
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You work with milestones procedure? I bet her team loves her.
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I'm a female (yeah, I'm aware of what this sub thinks of females) and I've never met a female programmer better than me. And I'm not even that good.
I've almost quit the CS industry because of the whole "we need more women in tech" movement. All they end up doing is hiring incompetent women to meet a quota. And then we're not allowed to call them out as incompetent because that's considered sexist.
I've helped my company with recruiting and helped sort resumes after a career fair. I literally saw a guy pull female resumes from the "mediocre" pile into the "contact first" pile, his reasoning being "because diversity".
I honestly don't know where someone who just enjoys programming can work without being bombarded with feminist propaganda on a daily basis.
Edit: I commented here because this is the only non-PC discussion of the issue I've seen anywhere. I can't say these things on a regular CS sub without being crucified.
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How much?
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yeah good for you, i am planning to do the same, i do not want to do this in ten years, no way ... would you consider to move to management instead of coding?
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