https://www.alternet.org/gender/employers-women-could-you-be-any-dumber-please
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Women in the top echelons have undue advantage over men. I have personally worked under women managers in Dell EMC whose technical and managerial skills are 50% lesser than their male counterparts and they end up getting promoted. I wish I were a woman so that I can get away without much hard work.
“Dumbest pretty faces have big role in reducing attrition of top talent.”
No, it’s the idiots who hire them.
Dumbest pretty faces have big role in reducing attrition of top talent.
"What is really going on, as peer-reviewed studies continually find, is that high-achieving women experience social backlash because their very success—and specifically the behaviors that created that success—violates our expectations about how women are supposed to behave. Women are expected to be nice, warm, friendly, and nurturing. Thus, if a woman acts assertively or competitively, if she pushes her team to perform, if she exhibits decisive and forceful leadership, she is deviating from the social script that dictates how she “should” behave. By violating beliefs about what women are like, successful women elicit pushback from others for being insufficiently feminine and too masculine. As descriptions like “Ice Queen,” and “Ballbuster” can attest, we are deeply uncomfortable with powerful women. In fact, we often don’t really like them."
-- just look at HR
Read the article, then complain. Employers are the ones keeping you from working w/ intelligent, skilled women. And the more seasoned pros are “aged out” by HR, the worse it will get.
just hire Asian women from China. Problem solved.
I work with a team of women and reporting to lady bosses. In terms of technical savvyness, it really depends on generation. Gen X and above tend to try to fit into the friendly sweet bimbo stereotype for no apparent reason and they expect the Enter button on laptops to read their mind. Attempts at explaining will put you in a hot spot of making them bored and not being a helpful teammate. I myself have met really smart technically savvy women, but Dell seems to favor hiring and promoting the dumbest pretty face they can find.
I worked with quite a few women who are quite intelligent and business savvy. The problem I found is that they sometimes get stuck hiring some females that are just a bit smarter than a box of rocks. This one time I remember a female worker ask me to show her the same thing over and over each week until I had to just say no. Also asked me to setup her printer while I was working on proposal to customer, we do have a support desk for that. Same goes with Males. It is called affirmative action it is caused when a company is compelled to hire something even when they don't fit the position. This is one reason why the Dell/EMC teams don't perform well in some regions.