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  • May likes Torontomayintoronto@beige.party
    Nov 11, 2026, 12:24 PM

    A bit of a stretch. I'm looking for an article on how women software developers are systemically pushed into project and product management work and paths against their will or career aspirations, effectively forcing them to become less technical. I think it's probably from at least a year ago.

    I've been digging through search and gosh, do you not want to read through the shit I just had to read through. Mistakes were made.

    Edit 1: It could have been this: noidea.dog/glue. I vaguely remember something less "here's how you protect yourself, young developer." and more "these are the systemic issues."

    Edit 2: it's most like a combination of these 2 articles. Both are worth reading. fightforthehuman.com/why-i-can

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  • May likes Torontomayintoronto@beige.party
    Nov 11, 2026, 12:39 PM

    I read through this one fairly long article that laid out the argument for equitable hiring, that ended in: (paraphrased)

    1. I was the only man on a team and that was very nice. No further details. (Despite talking about the theory for pages before that.)

    2. I was determined to hire a woman on my team full of men. So I found a man, and I set out to find a woman in my next hire. I dumped all the male sounding names from the pile, but oh no, Asian names are hard to gender and all the women applicants are mostly Chinese or Indian. Too bad. I went with anglicized names that I could gender. That hire was great. She went on to work for Amazon, so you know she was great.

    *Flips table* what the actual fuck is wrong with people?!?!

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