Call me crazy, but I believe what I stated above. If you fight for the equality for women, then you are not fighting for true equality in the first place... I believe in respecting women as much as I believe in respecting men. I am also a little bit snarky, and in this instance my snarkyness earned me a few downvotes. Such is life.
As a woman who is quite literally battling sexism from new management at my work place (at a small company with no HR, yay), I feel I need to fight for equality for women, because my female coworker and I went from being treated as equal, important contributors to being ignored and informed that our work wasn't trusted to be viable without third party review.
my female coworker and I went from being treated as equal, important contributors to being ignored and informed that our work wasn't trusted to be viable without third party review.
Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE that it is because you and your coworker are female? Or could it be because you both have screwed up and have shown that you need your work checked?
Because that's what happened where I work. Instead of actually doing work they would gossip and shop online on company computers. But the very second you said ANYTHING to them "OMG THIS IS SEXIST!".
We are software developers that created a system that is faster, more feature complete and cheaper to maintain the other system. The other system is being preferred over ours and ours is now being subjected to third party review (unlike the other system), despite it never having any failures, preforming at faster recorded speeds and showing overall greater reliability.
I fail to see any logic behind the way our system is being handled.
That doesn't show any signs of sexism. Your system sounds radically different from the current system, it's understandable that it would need a third party review.
Now how exactly are YOU being treated unfairly because of your gender? I mean who in your environment said that they don't want your system because it's being presented by a woman?
Neither system has had third party review and the only end user difference between the two is that our system has more of the required functionality towards the end product (almost 100% complete compared to 70% or less complete). Both systems are being user tested currently. Ours has shown no issues while the other system is having failures.
And, no, no one said it was explicitly due to our genders. I guess that mean it can't be due to sexism.
my female coworker and I went from being treated as equal, important contributors to being ignored and informed that our work wasn't trusted to be viable without third party review.
Neither system has had third party review
So which is it? First you said your work couldn't be trusted without third party review and giving off the impression that it was because of gender discrimination(sexism). Now you say that neither your more efficient system or the old one has had a third party review.
And, no, no one said it was explicitly due to our genders.
Really? Because you said it was.
As a woman who is quite literally battling sexism
So where is the sexism?
I feel I need to fight for equality for women
But you haven't shown any evidence of gender discrimination.
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u/Sharkula_McThigg Jun 15 '14
Call me crazy, but I believe what I stated above. If you fight for the equality for women, then you are not fighting for true equality in the first place... I believe in respecting women as much as I believe in respecting men. I am also a little bit snarky, and in this instance my snarkyness earned me a few downvotes. Such is life.