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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It’s the sexism, honestly. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been passed over, talked over, belittled, and mocked for being a woman in tech. I have a lot of support from half of the industry, but from the other… well. I’ve been told to make sure I stay behind the man because he should always be walking into a room first. I’ve been ignored by coworkers. I’ve been screamed at by my boss in a way he only ever did to women. I’ve been seated in a boss’s office for him to leer at me whilst lecturing me over nothing because he wanted to stare.

    That, and then the pay gap… It’s unsurprising. There’s so much sexism in the industry and there’s even more for someone young trying to get into it - both with the social pressure, as you mentioned, to do something else, and the general rude bollocks of ‘girls can’t code’. I’m so proud of all the young female devs I see starting to get into tech.


  • Mm… it’s a bit different. I’m a female game dev working in one of my country’s bigger studios, and I’m one of two women who touches code (aka, software engineer/developer). Out of the whole company of ~300 people, there are only ~50 women. Most of those are artists, designers, QA, production, audio, HR , or other higher ups in the company.

    It’s no secret that they’re desperately trying to get more female engineers on board, but there’s just a huge shortage of tech talent where I live, and a lot of women are driven off from game dev because of the reactions and treatment that are so typical of the environment. Even getting here, everything has been very male-dominated through my entire career; women in tech just aren’t as common for countless reasons.

    I’d love to see statistics for some of the really big companies, actually.