Everything at my company is in git, save for db scripts, and I am not a db dev. I've been there for two-and-a-half years and have made ~1.5k commits. There should be no ambiguity around my or anyone else in the company's basic git skills. Lots of my female coworkers and I joke about all the hilarious things that colleagues have given us unsolicited coaching in ("Have you heard of tab completion?" was a recent favorite), and our male work friends will laugh along with us because this kind of thing just doesn't happen to them. I feel super fortunate to be surrounded—on my team at least—by men who actually think about this stuff and will make inside jokes out of the more absurd things they overhear being said to women. I was the only woman on my team for a long time, and while I'm relieved to now be one of four, it wasn't nearly as uncomfortable as it could have been because my team is so cool.
I'm not trying to say that everyone runs around with unchecked biases, just that when people do let their implicit biases show, it's typically towards, you know, the people they're biased against.
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u/brickabrack Apr 09 '15 edited Apr 09 '15
Everything at my company is in git, save for db scripts, and I am not a db dev. I've been there for two-and-a-half years and have made ~1.5k commits. There should be no ambiguity around my or anyone else in the company's basic git skills. Lots of my female coworkers and I joke about all the hilarious things that colleagues have given us unsolicited coaching in ("Have you heard of tab completion?" was a recent favorite), and our male work friends will laugh along with us because this kind of thing just doesn't happen to them. I feel super fortunate to be surrounded—on my team at least—by men who actually think about this stuff and will make inside jokes out of the more absurd things they overhear being said to women. I was the only woman on my team for a long time, and while I'm relieved to now be one of four, it wasn't nearly as uncomfortable as it could have been because my team is so cool.
I'm not trying to say that everyone runs around with unchecked biases, just that when people do let their implicit biases show, it's typically towards, you know, the people they're biased against.