<story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwetzler</author><text>On Friday I pitched my company to a room of 150 developers, since my company was a hackathon sponsor. I was the only female speaker out of about 15.&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, a well-known, elite developer asked me if I programmed. When I said yes, he said that made me 50% less attractive. Then he asked me if I cooked and cleaned. To my face.&lt;p&gt;You don&apos;t have to be high profile to deal with this stuff. Just being in a room where you&apos;re 1 female out of 15 males is enough to get this kind of attention.</text></item><item><author>h2s</author><text>Are there any high profile women in this industry who haven&apos;t been treated like shit in some way such as this? What a nasty bunch of people we are. Are we (developers) the douchey 80s guy of the 21st century?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>What the fuck, I really can&apos;t wrap my mind around the fact that stuff like this happens. Who are these idiots? It would be pretty useful if there were a way to get these types of things anonymously reported so the accusers could have some way to publicize it, the accuser have their chance to voice their side of the story, and failing to clear the issue up (in your case, there is no excuse for that kind of response) the rest of the entire industry could never, ever hire that person. It&apos;s embarrassing that interactions like this happen in a professional setting and there are no good measures in place to report and prevent them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwetzler</author><text>On Friday I pitched my company to a room of 150 developers, since my company was a hackathon sponsor. I was the only female speaker out of about 15.&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, a well-known, elite developer asked me if I programmed. When I said yes, he said that made me 50% less attractive. Then he asked me if I cooked and cleaned. To my face.&lt;p&gt;You don&apos;t have to be high profile to deal with this stuff. Just being in a room where you&apos;re 1 female out of 15 males is enough to get this kind of attention.</text></item><item><author>h2s</author><text>Are there any high profile women in this industry who haven&apos;t been treated like shit in some way such as this? What a nasty bunch of people we are. Are we (developers) the douchey 80s guy of the 21st century?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jellicle</author><text>You know, naming names is probably one of the best ways to combat this.  Silence helps the asshole keep doing it.&lt;p&gt;I understand the reasons why you might not want to.  It&apos;s tragedy of the commons problem; you get no benefit and possible detriment from naming names - only society as a whole benefits.&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless you should.  It&apos;s the right thing to do.</text></comment>