05-18-2016, 09:02 AM
(05-17-2016, 03:23 PM)Odin Wrote: Women are still subject to significant degrees of sexism in male-dominated fields and so feel discouraged from even trying to get in them. Look at the GamerGate BS, for example, how many women are going to bother trying to go into the video game industry when they risk getting their lives ruined by harassment mobs? And in At-Will states a lot of non-discrimination laws are basically toothless.
A point I'll make here is that in some ways the whole GamerGate mess shows that a lot of the sexism is external. A woman can work in a place that's legitimately inclusive with strong anti-discrimination internal policies, but she can still get a barrage of sexism for external forces wanting to make her life miserable. There's some video I watched recently that I can't remember who did it (you might since this is up your wheelhouse) in which women were reading off to their male colleagues the long list of abusive, sexist comments they get daily, in hopes for a bit of a wakeup call.