This author, will not even acknowledge that this problem exist for males
Because it doesn't. Men do not receive the same level of sustained harassment merely for being a visible member of a technical community. I've never been threatened with violence or death, despite being (if anything) higher profile than Jesse Frazelle. It doesn't happen on anything like the same scale, and attempting to equate the two is clearly inaccurate.
Then if medical nursing has lot of lesser number of males, then does it indicate some kind of victimhood of males in that profession.
I don't know if you know any male nurses (I do), but yeah, there are issues in the nursing profession. But a large part of it is that nursing is considered a significantly less prestigious profession than other branches of medicine, and the stereotypes influence who applies in the first place. It's strange that nursing is such a go-to comparison in this kind of discussion, because it's accepted that there's a problem there and people are working to increase the representation of men.
Trying to say that only one gender faces problems and not the other, makes you blind chauvinist of that gender, and nothing else.
Many of the problems in the technology industry disproportionately affect women, while few (if any) disproportionately affect men. I'm choosing to spend my time working on the former. If you'd like to work on the latter, feel free!
I hope you understood - what equalism actually means
It's a made up word that implies that there's no pervasive sexism in society, and as such it's a denial of reality. Hope that helps!
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Re: reply to this funny article from a woman IT professional
Date: 2015-07-09 06:00 pm (UTC)Because it doesn't. Men do not receive the same level of sustained harassment merely for being a visible member of a technical community. I've never been threatened with violence or death, despite being (if anything) higher profile than Jesse Frazelle. It doesn't happen on anything like the same scale, and attempting to equate the two is clearly inaccurate.
I don't know if you know any male nurses (I do), but yeah, there are issues in the nursing profession. But a large part of it is that nursing is considered a significantly less prestigious profession than other branches of medicine, and the stereotypes influence who applies in the first place. It's strange that nursing is such a go-to comparison in this kind of discussion, because it's accepted that there's a problem there and people are working to increase the representation of men.
Many of the problems in the technology industry disproportionately affect women, while few (if any) disproportionately affect men. I'm choosing to spend my time working on the former. If you'd like to work on the latter, feel free!
It's a made up word that implies that there's no pervasive sexism in society, and as such it's a denial of reality. Hope that helps!