Such women have the degree (I have it too) or a title in the email signature three-four words long. Equal, no? Well no. Most of the time, almost always, she won't have a clue on how to do the work her job requires. They will spread confident statements that will sound knowledgeable but if you actually know what they are talking about you will know it's complete nonsense - mistakes and fabrications - they are simply making it up (instead of simply looking it up). It becomes obvious to you after a while that they see their competence not as being skillful, experienced and as a result very effective - but as being good at throwing around the right "buzz sentences" to make it look as if they are someone you can trust with that job. They will send you their "completed task" and it will almost always be half baked. You will need to do your share - and 50% or more of theirs, you will need to spend more time on fixing problems they created (by never asking how something is done and instead "throwing something"), and then you will find out that while they know you are leaning over your computer at 10 pm working to fix it, they are out of office.

These "a woman can do anything a man can" women, holding "same position as a man", simply create a facade, a theater show. Mostly the only thing equal to a man they have is the job title and degree - they don't actually have the knowledge, know how to do the job or put in the effort needed, rather, the "equal number of women" in such positions is made possible by men doing their own 100% and then 50% of the women's work.

This is the reality of it all. Not all women in these positions are like that - absolutely not! I worked with bright, hard-working, responsible, knowledgeable women ("knowledgeable" means: being responsible enough to spend time looking for all the needed knowledge and making sure you really understand it, instead of relying on mumbling something and on someone else "taking care of it"), who will hold their end of the pole with you and won't let go until it's in place, but they were a rare sight. In nine out of ten cases, it would be sleepless nights, no weekends, to do the woman's part and then some (as for men, my experience was that they do their best - each according to his capacity. If they're not holding their end it's because their mother is in hospital, not because they don't want to [edit: come to think of it, a slouchy man in these responsible roles just gets replaced as soon as everyone have time to breath again. Maybe knowing this pushes men to deliver while women might get the opposite message - we need you for the body count so as long as you don't shoot a missile at the office you won't get replaced]. And if men don't know something they just say it and ask, instead of inventing nonsense that create problems that you need to then solve. Them not minding their "ego" and simply asking for instructions saves unimaginable amounts of time). Has anyone else had this experience? Any doctors or engineers here who can tell how it works in their field? (I'm so tired).