Glad to hear you at least had some decent colleagues!
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SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Yuuup. Woman in engineering here. I once had a supervisor whose behaviour I thought of as normal, but two guys I worked with separately reported him to HR for bullying after seeing how he treated me.
It’s funny, I had many years with almost no career progression, now my boss is a woman and I’m having to get used to the idea that bonuses and promotions are things that actually happen when I work hard.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Yeah, that’s the thing, the majority if guys are OK or better … it’s just there’s enough arseholes to hold women and minorities back when there’s no or unenforced DEI
Dr_Nik@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I also am glad you got the support. I’m constantly reminded of a friend in college who was going through an electrical engineering undergrad with me. She got all the material so easily and literally dragged me through the classes. I wouldn’t have passed some key topics without her help. Fast forward a few years and I’m getting my PhD and I decide to see what she is up to: she ended up quitting her PhD program because of the insane abuse and misogyny she experienced in the department and instead changed to a masters in music. This was a woman who could easily have made field changing discoveries but was shut down because of close minded individuals. It still makes me rage and is the reason I work so much harder now to ensure my female colleagues and employees have an equal voice at the table.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Sad to say, but that’s a familiar story.
It’s great that you’re now making efforts to right that sort of wrong now!
starlinguk@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
My wife was marked down on her PhD because she “wasn’t nice enough” to her supervisor. All the assessors gave her top marks, but her supervisor vetoed them.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Please give her a hug from me. And if you happen to get a chance to stab her supervisor … well, I’ll not say do it, because that would be illegal. But sometimes accidents happen …