I compose music and study music technology. I’m one of two women in my year of 8. In my bachelors we had 100 students, 5 women, one nonbinary person.
It was rough. It’s the usual not being taken seriously. Some people even have quite extreme views and think a professor mentioning that “women should have rights” is indoctrination of his politics.
So it was rough.
But I’ve also met lots of lovely people. And the solidarity between gender diverse people is great. I’ve found different game dev and music groups for underrepresented genders which are lovely. I imagine there’s those types of groups in different fields :)
It’s the usual not being taken seriously.
Oh, ugh, I hated that part of working in tech. Double-whammy here: vagina-bearer and in marketing. I had to push back on that so often…
It’s so frustrating! I didn’t have a vulva until two years ago, but always been a woman. So often people just speak over you.
The best one is when men who don’t do the same job as you start explaining your job to you :‘) happened multiple times both in composition and community work :’)