>>>>>No wonder their software is so full of bugs {g}
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>>>>>http://rt.com/news/194740-karma-women-microsoft-criticism/
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>>>>I've been watching the reaction on social media. There is (understandably) a great deal of anger in reaction to Satya's comments. He's trying to walk it back, but I don't think he realized just how palpable this topic is for some female developers.
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>>>Given what a lot of women have to put up with just to get where they are in this business, I can see where being told, in essence, "Be a good girl and sit quietly until recognized" would be causing a wee bit of anger.
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>>>And for those of us who came up being, quite often, the only woman in an office of men there is a part of me that says "Whaddya expect from a pig but a grunt?"
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>>There's more here, too, than just the obvious. Men and women, for the most part, speak differently and behave differently in speaking, and that tends to have negative consequences for women in business settings. I recently read (though it's not new) Deborah Tannen's "Talking from 9 to 5" and it talks a lot about these issue.
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>>Tamar
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>Would be interested in hearing some examples.

Unfortunately, it was a library book and I returned it, so I don't have it here. But one process for which she showed several examples was a woman making a suggestion only to have it ignored and then a man making the same suggestion and having it adopted and the woman's original suggestion of it never recognized.

A big theme was men seeing the world as conflict, while women see it as cooperation. (The book acknowledges that such generalizations don't apply to everyone, but cites plenty of research to support the generalizations.)

Tamar