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Recognizing my own bias or prejudice .....
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Oct 15, 2019 | Replies (173)Comment receiving replies
@contentandwell thank you for sharing your experience. I don't think gender based violence/bias in the workplace is gone at all, but I assume it has evolved over time. I hear it is still bad in tech/IT :/
I work remotely so I don't experience workplace prejudice in any physical setting, though the reality of it pervades through digital realms too.
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@ayeshasharma My husband was a manager in IT so what I know is through him. The VP of that area was a well-respected woman.
When I worked in IT - I retired from it in 1980 when my son was born - the bias was incredibly blatant. I had a very good salary for that time and I was very experienced with good professional credentials, but they brought in a guy to share my office with a year of experience and paid him $5000 more than what I was making, which at that time was huge difference. In another job where the guys were regularly paid more than the women, I was told that guys needed to make more money than women did! I bristled back then, but now when I think about those incidents and more I just shake my head in disbelief.
I will have to ask my daughter if she feels a gender bias. I know when she was interviewing for jobs a couple of years ago she chose to not wear her wedding ring, she was fairly newly married. She said if she wore it would hurt her chances because they would think she would be “popping out babies”.
JK