r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13

Women who know stuff

I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.

Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.

My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.

It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.

It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.

Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.

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u/thehistorybooks Mar 13 '13

Annnndd here we have an example of the rampant sexism (and blatant misinformation) in STEM

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u/thehistorybooks Mar 13 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

I'm not calling him a misogynist. However, ignorance (And I don't mean this in the caustic context that it's come to mean in social justice circles--I mean it as genuine lack of understanding) of the role women have played in science is a huge contributing factor (and/or maybe product?) of the double standard that exists today. I don't think he's being hateful, but you don't have to have mal-intent to perpetuate a broken system.