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I'm more inclined to trust this account than I am with others because there's a lot of things she mentioned which are quite synonymous with the 'tech bro' industry:
However, I will withhold my judgement until I hear both sides of the story like always. I also don't know why she didn't press criminal charges, I'm sure sexual assault is a crime in Canada and you won't have to pay legal fees like she mentioned towards the end. And one more thing, she should have mentioned these "managers", "certain members", and alleged sex offenders by name.
I’ve been in the workforce for 30 years. I’ve never seen anything even close to this happen anywhere I have worked, I haven’t heard stories about it from my friends either.
But we aren’t tech bros.
The circumstantial evidence seems to suggest that the tech industry has a big problem with this kind of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Why? I have no idea.
But that industry needs to take account of this and hold themselves to a higher standard. Getting support for this is probably hard for lemmy users because many of them are probably tech bros themselves and possibly blind to this sort of thing happening in their workplaces too.
Def seems like the rumblings around tech culture and sexism has some teeth though
Or you aren't someone that woman deem as safe to talk to about this.
Sexual harassment and sexual violence happen all over the world and in every industry. Just think about how many people react when they hear something like this and that will make it clear why the victims often don't talk to anyone (or only a few people they see as safe) about this.
Or I’m responsible for the women on my team and don’t tolerate a culture of anything less than professional