Recently we had that female Mozilla employee whose code (for a personal project, no less) was made fun of by three semi-prominent developers on Twitter. The consensus on HN was that there was nothing wrong with her code, but that she was being picked on solely for being a girl.
I think that was your consensus, but here is the thread, my very brief rescan of that doesn't indicate to me that her being a woman was the issue, the consensus seems to be that twitter makes it trivial to be an asshole, and many people are happy to jump in.
In general I see lots of assertion that men in tech treat women terribly, but not much evidence. The evidence that is there usually points to events that took place before employment.
In this case, our 17 year old heroine clearly faced no jerks in tech, though it is likely she faced jerks in high school.
And it's not at all clear to me that any abuse she has suffered as female nerd in high school is any worse than the abuse male nerds face.
I think that was your consensus, but here is the thread, my very brief rescan of that doesn't indicate to me that her being a woman was the issue, the consensus seems to be that twitter makes it trivial to be an asshole, and many people are happy to jump in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106767
In general I see lots of assertion that men in tech treat women terribly, but not much evidence. The evidence that is there usually points to events that took place before employment.
In this case, our 17 year old heroine clearly faced no jerks in tech, though it is likely she faced jerks in high school.
And it's not at all clear to me that any abuse she has suffered as female nerd in high school is any worse than the abuse male nerds face.