Women in Tech is just talk to a lot of people. Maybe of a particular gender.
It’s like when a professional woman says that there are gender issues in the technology field that need to be addressed, it automatically makes one party the ‘aggressor’ and the other the victim. This is not how this should be interpreted at all.
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What should be an open dialogue on obvious gender disparities in the IT world then become ‘discussions’ as:
- The other gender(s) doesn’t like being labeled as privileged, entitled, favored, or any other nice adjectives – especially if any career benefit they got recently was a passive ‘trickle-down’ from the Buddy System
- As a woman, you could have gotten the same if you ‘tried a little harder’.
“I didn’t know you wanted the position. Why didn’t you ask for it?” Mr. Buddy System
“Why wasn’t it advertised?” Mrs. Not-a-Buddy
You must know of the Buddy System in some form, right? Tag-team to the bathroom, to get ice-cream around the corner, when in the pool – always. Maybe traditionally us as women were using it for ‘safety’ and no so much climbing the ranks.
In the IT professional world, the Buddy System has many names. You may have heard of:
- Alliances
- Past Student Associations
- Old Boys/Girls Club
- Drinks after work
- Online game meet-up
Here you find polygamous pairings of people sharing important insider info, forming bonds, and lending a masculine hand to the other
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