I worked in a women dominate field, with probably 85% to 90% of the people being women at my institution, outside the IT team. At my job, even though no one will admit it, I have experienced a bias from females in lead positions ensuring I don’t move out of my current position, and every time, hiring or moving another women into positions I have applied for and been qualified for. I even had a male VP tell me there was no reason I should of been looked over for multiple positions now if it wasn’t for “Worker dynamics” as he put it; No one, including the lead women, have explained to me what in my job experience or skill set has caused me to not get a single job move out of the 6 I have applied for now. One of them, I had multiple women underhandly discussing and planning how I would be denied a job I was applying for and lined up for. I was lined up by the VP for the position until a woman admin lead intervened, literally fought the VP in front of the board and hiring committee, and ensured I was not going to get it. And, what do you know, they ended up hiring a woman. Women are perfectly fine with gender discrimination against men in the vast majority of cases I have seen or experienced myself and justify it as a needed correction for the historical wrongs they have experienced.
The_Demolition_Man on
At my work there is a professional engineering association for employees. This organization recently put forward the explicit goal of empowering women and advancing their careers woth special mentorship and accelerated applications.
There is also a second, women only professional engineering organization that was already founded with those goals in mind.
Whenever I bring up that there is no organization advocating and developing men, I am universally met with outright hostility and mockery. One person told me that it was “men’s responsibility” to help themselves, as if the employee professional network isnt there to help everyone.
We are already well into the stages of a major right wing poltical/economic backlash, and further isolating and disenfranchising men is just going to fuel it.
Malvania on
Christ. That there hasn’t been an increase in jobs held by men is not the same thing as saying jobs are moving away from men.
Then, let’s look at the underlying reasoning. The sectors that are growing (healthcare and social assistance) are recession-proof and are growing due to an aging population. Women are more likely to achieve college or higher degrees, making the more valuable jobs. That means men are the ones holding the non-college jobs such as manufacturing, farming, etc., jobs that are going to be increasingly hit by Trump’s/the GOP’s isolationist policies. They’ve sold isolationism as a benefit due to removing extra supply, but it also destroys demand and forces increased career transissions based on what is in demand in the US rather than the entire world. And, of course, the supply curve is only moderately affected because tariffs increase prices, which in turn also drive down demand.
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I worked in a women dominate field, with probably 85% to 90% of the people being women at my institution, outside the IT team. At my job, even though no one will admit it, I have experienced a bias from females in lead positions ensuring I don’t move out of my current position, and every time, hiring or moving another women into positions I have applied for and been qualified for. I even had a male VP tell me there was no reason I should of been looked over for multiple positions now if it wasn’t for “Worker dynamics” as he put it; No one, including the lead women, have explained to me what in my job experience or skill set has caused me to not get a single job move out of the 6 I have applied for now. One of them, I had multiple women underhandly discussing and planning how I would be denied a job I was applying for and lined up for. I was lined up by the VP for the position until a woman admin lead intervened, literally fought the VP in front of the board and hiring committee, and ensured I was not going to get it. And, what do you know, they ended up hiring a woman. Women are perfectly fine with gender discrimination against men in the vast majority of cases I have seen or experienced myself and justify it as a needed correction for the historical wrongs they have experienced.
At my work there is a professional engineering association for employees. This organization recently put forward the explicit goal of empowering women and advancing their careers woth special mentorship and accelerated applications.
There is also a second, women only professional engineering organization that was already founded with those goals in mind.
Whenever I bring up that there is no organization advocating and developing men, I am universally met with outright hostility and mockery. One person told me that it was “men’s responsibility” to help themselves, as if the employee professional network isnt there to help everyone.
We are already well into the stages of a major right wing poltical/economic backlash, and further isolating and disenfranchising men is just going to fuel it.
Christ. That there hasn’t been an increase in jobs held by men is not the same thing as saying jobs are moving away from men.
Then, let’s look at the underlying reasoning. The sectors that are growing (healthcare and social assistance) are recession-proof and are growing due to an aging population. Women are more likely to achieve college or higher degrees, making the more valuable jobs. That means men are the ones holding the non-college jobs such as manufacturing, farming, etc., jobs that are going to be increasingly hit by Trump’s/the GOP’s isolationist policies. They’ve sold isolationism as a benefit due to removing extra supply, but it also destroys demand and forces increased career transissions based on what is in demand in the US rather than the entire world. And, of course, the supply curve is only moderately affected because tariffs increase prices, which in turn also drive down demand.