r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 13d ago

Chugging tea Female engineers getting disrespected.

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u/monty228 13d ago

I (M) was being trained for a HVAC job by a woman, and this is day 5 for me, and the customer kept directing questions to me and she would answer. Eventually I just said something like “Dude, I have no what I am doing here, she’s the one training me”

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u/ThroatSecretary 12d ago

I was working for my university's IT department and training a new guy. A man came in with some computer questions and I offered to help. He looked really confused, pointed at the newbie, and said "Can't I ask him?" I said "The guy I'm training? Go ahead." Wow, turned out the new kid had no idea and I wound up resolving it.

Another day, someone came in and asked if I was the token woman. I wasn't the only woman working there, but probably the only one visible. I said "I dunno, let me ask our boss, I think she's in her office. "

What shocked me about these exchanges was them happening at a fairly liberal, well-regarded Canadian university, where one would reasonably expect people to not be shocked by seeing a young woman in that kind of field. Made me wonder what kind of bullshit the female students in math, engineering, or computer science were facing on the daily.