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  • GinaGina@fosstodon.org
    Oct 21, 2026, 8:37 AM

    Without this DEI program, I wouldn't have worked in IT. Again, grateful to Capgemini ❤️

    Unfortunately I now worked in corporate IT. I was the only woman in every team. A self taught junior dev. The micro aggressions that I had to deal were _insane_.

    Daily:
    - expected to get coffee and take notes
    - ignored, side eyed or talked over
    - expected to write CSS as a Java dev because "girls are good at that"
    - SO MANY weird and inappropriate jokes and comments
    - weird invites to a senior devs house

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  • GinaGina@fosstodon.org
    Oct 21, 2026, 8:59 AM

    Me and the literal 6 or so other women in this giant engineering dept even teamed up and participated in a hackathon. There were like 200 men and us in our pink sweaters :')

    We made a food tracking app or something dumb, so we didn't win, but I do remember being a bit uncomfortable sitting a hanger with 200 men overnight. The guys didn't engage much with us. It was fine, but not necessarily welcoming.

    Linkedin posts from 2016 of me at a Capgemini hackathon, with our all female team. We wore cute pink sweaters and made a dumb app :')
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  • GinaGina@fosstodon.org
    Oct 21, 2026, 9:58 AM

    Anecdotally, how not to do inclusive leadership.

    I had a senior manager whose wife had broken both arms on a cycling trip and he was complaining NON-STOP about now having to do everything at home while working fulltime. When I pointed out that I also did everything at home while working fulltime, and I was fine, he said "yeah but it comes natural to you" (plural you, 'jullie' in Dutch). This was in a team meeting. The same manager would often try to give secretarial tasks. Fun times.

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