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[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In my experience, predominantly male environments are fairly disdainful of anything non-technical and include a lot of unexamined biased views toward women. Workplaces with more women, or a balance of both, don’t have the same issue, in my experience.

I’ve worked predominantly in two fields - engineering and environmental policy. I find the culture of engineering to be pretty toxic - too many conservative men. Environmental policy suffers from too much being demanded of workers, I think mostly because of the expectation that you’re motivated by your passion, rather than being paid for your time. I don’t know if that is directly tied to the gender balance in the workplace, but certainly women historically and presently are not compensated fairly for their work.

It’s a shame that I’m better at doing engineering, because I vastly prefer to not work in a place where I can hear my boss listen to Hannity every day through the wall.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Unexamined bias" was exactly the phrase I was going to use. Homogenous working environments tend to ignore blindspots and assume that their team experience is universal.

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