# How (gender) mixed is your workplace? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729 "2012-05-22T16:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/1 "2012-05-22T16:14:05Z")
For the purpose of this poll, any customers you interact with in person count as part of “your workplace”. As a programmer, most places I’ve worked have been almost entirely male. And I don’t like it. It’s just depressing, and there is a tendency for “boys to be boys” without women around, and to be a bit more grown up otherwise (I’ve worked in one place that was roughly 50:50 and it was a good dynamic I think). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/2 "2012-05-22T16:16:16Z")
Totally sexually integrated. No surprise there. My chain of command is almost entirely female, OTOH. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/3 "2012-05-22T16:27:36Z")
Male, working at a non-profit health care organization. And so, 70-95% of my cow-orkers are female, including my direct report. I think it’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby\_Slippers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@Ruby\_Slippers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby_Slippers)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/4 "2012-05-22T16:27:49Z")
I’m in a cubicle farm of office workers. I’d guess we’re pretty evenly split between male and female. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/5 "2012-05-22T16:43:07Z")
I work at a small clinic and everyone here is female. It makes for a stressful week about once a month. At my previous job in a lumberyard, there were 3 females and around 40 males. For me, guys are so much easier to get along with. Way less drama. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/6 "2012-05-22T16:43:45Z")
I’m one of three men in our department of 30 people. It’s HR administration which tends to be female-heavy. My company as a whole is about 75% women, but that includes tens of thousands of part-time retail workers. Our corporate employees are pretty evenly split I think. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/7 "2012-05-22T17:32:42Z")
My office skews heavily female, being a call center. We do have some guys, but they tend to self-select into promotions and other departments moreso than the women. But as I work for an insurance company, our overall gender split is fairly even. Just not in my department. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/8 "2012-05-22T17:44:55Z")
~73 men 2 women I work on a financial trading floor. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/9 "2012-05-22T17:45:57Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > there is a tendency for “boys to be boys” without women around, and to be a bit more grown up otherwise (I’ve worked in one place that was roughly 50:50 and it was a good dynamic I think). I want to take this part back. I don’t think men are more “grown up” with women around, I was trying to describe something a bit different to this. For example, there seems to be less debating _really_ unimportant technical issues, and more just getting on with it. I like that. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/10 "2012-05-22T17:47:21Z")
> [@Trom](#): > > ~73 men > > 2 women > > I work on a financial trading floor. That sucks. Did you vote in the poll, because I’m still the only guy that’s ticked 95%+ male? ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/11 "2012-05-22T17:48:46Z")
Company is close to 50-50 gender split. However, the upper management is almost exclusively male though we did have a female CEO for a time. They have tried to get more females up in management and have been succeeding but this has backfired on them during the past several months as a huge amount of guys have left and the main reason given were ‘gender bias in promotion opportunities’. We had a company meeting about this a couple weeks ago where upper management tried to claim that if you were a guy you still had as good a chance at promotion as the women…but then still claimed to be trying to get women up into the chain. Sorry, does not compute. That’s the problem with this sort of activity today. Yes, upper management is dominated by males…but punish THEM for this. Lay off some of them and replace them with women. Don’t try to balance things by punishing the young guys. They will not accept this, trust me. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/12 "2012-05-22T17:50:21Z")
95% women. I’m one of two guys. More lady nurses than guy nurses I guess. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/13 "2012-05-22T17:50:47Z")
Of the people that I know about in this wing, there are 3 men and 13 women. In my old department it was even more off-balance. It’s nice, but the younger women tend to get a bit cliquish. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/14 "2012-05-22T17:52:20Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > 95% women. I’m one of two guys. More lady nurses than guy nurses I guess. What’s it like among the doctors? In this department it’s 4 men and 2 women. My last department was a complete sausage fest. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/15 "2012-05-22T17:52:22Z")
If you count my department, it’s 34% female, 66% male. That option isn’t on the survey. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/16 "2012-05-22T18:00:40Z")
I’m female, web development, about halfsies. However, the back end programmers are both male, and the front end developers both female. I’ve found it skews that way in web dev, women can be designers and front end people but rarely do the programming. 3 women, 4 men. I forgot about our telecommuting male, whoops! ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/17 "2012-05-22T18:04:22Z")
Pretty much an even split right up the corporate ladder, such as it is. B2B telemarketing. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/18 "2012-05-22T18:07:38Z")
I work in a profession that’s been traditionally “pink collar” - librarianship, though academic libraries can have a more equitable distribution of men/women (in my experience. It could just be the nature of the places I’ve worked.) Looking at the overall staff/faculty/admin of the library, I still say greater than 75% female, though. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/19 "2012-05-22T18:08:04Z")
Logging is a fairly male dominated field, but it seems that every company is required to have a sassy admin assistant for the sole purpose of destroying the male ego. ---
**Author:** ![kmshrader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@kmshrader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmshrader)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729/20 "2012-05-22T18:12:09Z")
I work for a very small company - ten people, if I count those who aren’t here during the summer - and it’s seven women/three men. Only one man in a “management” position, and he’ll be leaving in June. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gender-mixed-is-your-workplace/622729.md?page=2)