But, like, are there types of IT women? Asking cause I am one and don’t know any tropes for us lol
Every IT woman I’ve worked with kicks ass and is really cool, doesn’t realize how cool and inspiring they are. Until management, then I have no idea how they got there, they can’t seem to use a computer let alone assist with IT related decision making.
Unicorn… Nah, I’m kidding fortunately for women there’s no strong stereotypes. There were enough women in my gigs that the individuality was easily apparent.
Since that’s isn’t really fun I’ll pull some very broad strokes descriptions out my rear end and see which one resonates with you.
The Professional Mom: 8-4:30 on the dot but maximum effort during working hours and never ever seen goofing off or chit chatting (lunch included). Pretty chill though and smart as hell.
The boardgame/crossword girl: most likely to be gender fluid. Don’t ever mistake her for “gamer girl”. Will happily shoot the shit with you and goof off if you treat her like human being. Will probably have real experiences of getting work/credit stolen by tech bros.
The optimistic young coder: super jazzed about being the in the field and learning everything about anything. A people pleaser to a fault. Give it two to three years before she’s completely jaded. Until then, an absolute sponge of knowledge.
The cut throat career track woman: absolutely obsessed with advancing her status. Tech bros learn brutality from these ladies. Usually transition to pure management or product divisions pretty early. Also most likely to organize the “women in tech” meetings for clout in the current company. Stay on their good side for your sake.
yeah, the answer is none, because im pretty sure 80-90% of the field is men still :(
(this is a stereotype meme, so it fits, don’t @ me)
I mean, I’m the only woman tech my company has hired ever, so your statement is kinda accurate.
idk what the actual stats are, mostly cuz i don’t really care, and it also depends on where you look, obviously. But i was mostly going off of anecotal experience, and uh, it’s definitely not looking great. But then again a lot of younger women are going to stem fields, more so than IT and admin stuff. Management as well, i might have to look into some actual statistics one of these days to see what’s actually going on lmao.
but it’s definitely one of the things of all time in the CS space right now. It’s still very male centric, for some reason.
