Comments on: Women in HPC to Host SC12 BoF on Diversity in the Workplace http://insidehpc.com/2012/11/06/women-of-hpc-to-host-sc12-bof-on-diversity-in-the-workplace/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Lorraine Freeman http://insidehpc.com/2012/11/06/women-of-hpc-to-host-sc12-bof-on-diversity-in-the-workplace/#comment-380101 Lorraine Freeman Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:01:34 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=32580#comment-380101 Men need to stop shunning and start mentoring. When (not if) a woman comes into the workplace and *immediately* (or for that matter, later) gets put into the "out" group, she will not have exposure to what she needs to learn, she will not get feedback on what she is doing, she will not be given guidance, she will not be able to explain why she is doing what she is doing, she will have to learn everything on her own rather than get useful tips and pointers. In short everything is ten times harder when you are being shunned and excluded. Your input, intelligence, and experience is completely ignored. No one reviews your code. No one talks to you. Your manager (so very often so very stupid) has no clue how to do your job so he relies on scuttlebutt to evaluate you (lacking the mental tools to be able to do an independent analysis himself) so your evaluations are always bad, no matter what you have actually achieved. You wonder why there are no women in STEM? It is the hateful WEIRD atmosphere they have to work in. I think the only way to combat this problem is to have entire teams comprised of women. Their managers need to be women and these female managers need to be AUTONOMOUS. Please, no males in the power structure. If you have males anywhere in the chain they will use their power to block the female's every move. A woman in IT is like Obama in TeaPartyLand. She will be the object of lies, crazy insane lies. She will be surrounded by the hatefully insane. And the incredibly stupid. Who would WANT to work in a field full of ADD misogynistic autistics IN CHARGE. God what a nightmare. Men need to stop shunning and start mentoring.

When (not if) a woman comes into the workplace and *immediately* (or for that matter, later) gets put into the “out” group, she will not have exposure to what she needs to learn, she will not get feedback on what she is doing, she will not be given guidance, she will not be able to explain why she is doing what she is doing, she will have to learn everything on her own rather than get useful tips and pointers. In short everything is ten times harder when you are being shunned and excluded. Your input, intelligence, and experience is completely ignored. No one reviews your code. No one talks to you. Your manager (so very often so very stupid) has no clue how to do your job so he relies on scuttlebutt to evaluate you (lacking the mental tools to be able to do an independent analysis himself) so your evaluations are always bad, no matter what you have actually achieved.

You wonder why there are no women in STEM? It is the hateful WEIRD atmosphere they have to work in.

I think the only way to combat this problem is to have entire teams comprised of women. Their managers need to be women and these female managers need to be AUTONOMOUS. Please, no males in the power structure. If you have males anywhere in the chain they will use their power to block the female’s every move.

A woman in IT is like Obama in TeaPartyLand. She will be the object of lies, crazy insane lies. She will be surrounded by the hatefully insane. And the incredibly stupid. Who would WANT to work in a field full of ADD misogynistic autistics IN CHARGE. God what a nightmare.

]]> By: Lorraine Freeman http://insidehpc.com/2012/11/06/women-of-hpc-to-host-sc12-bof-on-diversity-in-the-workplace/#comment-380097 Lorraine Freeman Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:07:47 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=32580#comment-380097 1. Men in the workplace need to be trained a) Just because a women thinks differently does not mean she is WRONG b) Viewing a problem from *several perspectives* actually IMPROVES THE PRODUCT c) Men are not always right d)If men actually LISTENED to what the women were saying, the product would come out BETTER e)If men treated women equally, read and answered their emails, listened to and respected them, they would perhaps realize that...they, the men, might actually have something to LEARN f)Men need to look around at their fellow male employees. Some of them are *completely* incompetent or lazy. Yet when layoffs come, a lazy or incompetent male WILL be retained over a productive female. e)Why is this? f)BIAS g)Men make mistakes ALL THE TIME. Big fat ugly stupid mistakes. The mistake-maker gets a pat on the back, "It's okay dude it happens to all of us". He is still held in regard. h)A women makes a mistake. The whispers start. "She's really stupid, you know. They all are." i)A man speaks up, he is bold! He is a truth-teller! Cooler than cool! j)A woman speaks up. "She's a troublemaker". "She's too critical". "She's a bitch". When layoffs roll around..."A business decision was made..." What women know: "We don't want your kind". 1. Men in the workplace need to be trained
a) Just because a women thinks differently does not mean she is WRONG
b) Viewing a problem from *several perspectives* actually IMPROVES THE PRODUCT
c) Men are not always right
d)If men actually LISTENED to what the women were saying, the product would come out BETTER
e)If men treated women equally, read and answered their emails, listened to and respected them, they would perhaps realize that…they, the men, might actually have something to LEARN
f)Men need to look around at their fellow male employees. Some of them are *completely* incompetent or lazy. Yet when layoffs come, a lazy or incompetent male WILL be retained over a productive female.
e)Why is this?
f)BIAS
g)Men make mistakes ALL THE TIME. Big fat ugly stupid mistakes. The mistake-maker gets a pat on the back, “It’s okay dude it happens to all of us”. He is still held in regard.
h)A women makes a mistake. The whispers start. “She’s really stupid, you know. They all are.”
i)A man speaks up, he is bold! He is a truth-teller! Cooler than cool!
j)A woman speaks up. “She’s a troublemaker”. “She’s too critical”. “She’s a bitch”.
When layoffs roll around…”A business decision was made…”
What women know: “We don’t want your kind”.

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