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EliteC posted...

Do tell more please...

My very first job out of school, I was hired to shadow one of the older engineers because he was retiring the next year. He was supposed to be my mentor. Instead, he refused to work with me. He refused to even speak with me and hardly looked at me. So they had to give me scraps of work from other engineers while I got no guidance.

Second job, the senior engineers refused to give me work. They gave me shit to copy or proofread for 8 months before finally giving me anything. When they took me to my first site visit (a year in) they allowed our clients to sexually harass me and laughed about it. I went home crying that day I felt so humiliated. Finally, another engineer at the company came to warn me that he had heard this group conspire to treat me like shit because I was on a visa and had to do what they said.

Third and final job, I tried tech support for other engineers and I was given no training. All of my male peers were flown out of state for a 4 week hands on training with all of our equipment. I was given manuals to read. They said it was because of a lack of budget. A few months later they hired male engineers and guess what, they were flown for training. I still had the highest surveys of the team and my cases were always closed on time, but they chalked it up to me having the most empathy instead of me being great at solving problems.

DarkRoast posted...

It's super bad in medicine, too

Oh I bet. Every male dominated industry has rampant sexism but if women try and speak up were immediately told its all in our heads and were bitching for nothing. HR pins you as a troublemaker if you try to bring up anything. I have never gone to HR but I know many women who have and they are just ignored.