In 2003 I had an interview at a factory, to work as a Production Engineer. They wanted someone who was familiar with “Process Improvement using math and not just the back of one’s hand”. The Production manager saw me and exclaimed “but she’s a girl!”
HR guy, while trying to coax his blood pressure back to Earth: “and?”
PM: “but but but how are we going to get a girl in Production?”
Me: “through the door?”
Now I work in Central for that same company. While the company is heavily male, there is a conscience that this needs to change; my own microteam consists of two women and a guy (ok, so the only guy is the boss… he’s also the only one who’s been here more than 3 months) and our larger team is about 40% women - something unbelievable just two years ago, when Central (a place bigger than some villages) boasted two, yes, two female-designated restrooms in the whole factory. One of the factory’s production managers (recent hire; the factory is large enough to have several PMs) is a woman. Remarks from the guys along the lines of “hey, but we’re getting better!” are met with responses (often from other guys) of “we need to do better yet!” or “dude, from zero to zero-point-five it’s still too low…”
Higher ed IT. The department as a whole is about 50/50 but there’s a definite difference in the types of jobs men & women are doing. E.g. the people who spend a lot of time in the machine rooms are mostly men. The programmers are mostly women.
In the absence of BD to defend that comment, I think what (s)he was referring to was positive discrimination or affirmative action or whatever. Bias was mentioned.
I was discussing in another thread how in some countries (e.g. Sweden) there are gender quotas for many industries and higher education. And the quotas are high – 40% or 50%. My position is that this is very unfair, as there are other possible causes for unequal proportions than just discrimination.
I’m a paediatric nurse and the percentage of men in paeds is even lower than in adult nursing I believe. It’s decades since I worked in adults, so I can’t say for sure, though.
HOA Management, in the office, 7 men/33 women, in my department (admin/ops) 10 women. Owners are a married couple (M/W) and their son, department managers are 1 man/3 women. Its a pretty female-dominated industry.
Yep. I work for a big ol’ HOA management conglomerate, and oh, my, yes, is it ever female-dominated. First place I’ve ever worked where the default pronoun is always “she.” Dunno why - it’s not like the few dudes aren’t good at their jobs or anything.
CEO is male, though. So is most of the tippy-top upper management. :dubious:
The team I functionally report to - about 25% women
In previous roles I have tended to be the only woman on the team although this is improving in different areas as more women are hired at entry level. Certain functions within the company are female dominant (HR & Supply Chain spring to mind) but in the field there is only a small contingent of women. This number does keep growing slowly but surely but retention at higher levels is problematic. The industry as a whole is male dominated.
When I first started out I arrived on a well location with my crew to complete a job and the company man refused to allow me to run the job as I was a 'girl. Lets just say my boss and his boss backed me and he did not work there much longer. This was only 11 years ago.
Female, in the software industry. My department (test) is 2/14 women, dev is about 2/30 women, one of whom is the department head. Ops/IT is 1/10 women one of whom is a department head. So on the more technical side, yes, it’s men men men as far as the eye can see. HR, Sales, Finance grouped together are closer to an even split.
I don’t feel like I’m treated differently from the guys but it’s possible there’s stuff I haven’t noticed. As an objective measure, the bugs I report have a good fix rate, and I report a lot of them.
Male, pharmaceutical QC. My department runs about 70% female, but I think the building runs about 50-50. I don’t have as good a grasp on how men and women are distributed over the entire site, but it seems to me that, on average, the QA and QC compliance-type work skews a bit female, and the plant work skews male, with the entire site running about 50-50.