The funniest line from social media:

“Maybe it’s because we don’t need a computer to automate mansplaining when there’s already an excess supply produced by men,” answers one woman.

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I am guessing a major factor is that a lot of industries, women often have to prove themselves to be as skilled as or more skilled than their male counterparts due to entrenched patriarchal structures. If you regularly have to prove you know how to code, you’re probably a lot less likely to rely on ChatGPT to do it for you.

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This was my first thought as well.

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I am having difficulty following this line of reasoning, can you please help clarify? Why would being forced to prove your worth dissuade you from using a productivity tool? Are you implying women likely don’t have access to use it at all, or they don’t trust the output because the stakes are too high?

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The issue here is that you consider it a productivity tool whereas misogynistic managers consider it a way for women to cheat.

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I guess given your response, you are asserting their managers are gatekeeping access? Do you have personal experience in that regard?

I ask because we have made a massive, and frankly dumb, push to get everyone and their mother to use ChatGPT at work, from C level down to the call centers. Our metrics show around %60 of queries come from male employees, despite only %30 of our global staff being male. Given that communications and access were given to all employees via the same global communications channels, we attributed that to more men being willing to try gimmicky new software than women, but I wonder if something else is at play…

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