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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP,

I think it's a microagression.

However, I graduate college in the early 1990s with a BA degree in English. My entire career has been spent in high tech fields. I've managed to earn a doctorate, and I've had a very long career.

I get so tired of seeing job descriptions that require a tech degree. Of course, that eliminates most women, because most women don't earn tech degrees. It's like jobs that require prior military experience eliminates most women, because most women are not prior military. [/quote]
What? Most men don’t have tech degrees or military experience, either. [/quote]

Sigh. Shall I type slower for you?

Far MORE men have military service backgrounds and until very recently, far MORE men had tech degrees than women (and even now, it will take time to catch up), therefore those positions are available to far MORE men than women.

Have you caught up now? DP[/quote]

Sorry, I messed up quotes earlier so I’m trying again.  (Clearly, I don’t belong in tech).

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I am a woman who graduated college in 1992. There was absolutely nothing keeping women out of tech degree programs or the military.  I could have done either, but I had absolutely no desire for a military lifestyle (avoiding it like the plague), and although I took some programming classes, ultimately, I majored in Psych (by personal preference). Meanwhile, my then boyfriend and future husband did major in CS, where he had classmates, professors, and later colleagues and bosses who were women.

As a PP indicated, while more men than women may have military experience and/or tech degrees, MOST men (by a vast majority) have neither.

It is very reasonable for employers to want to hire people who have proven they have the experience for the job, and a college degree is one obvious way to demonstrate competence. People who EARNED a tech degree have earned the respect that comes with it.  If someone wants the same respect, they can certainly go back to school and earn a tech degree themselves. On the other hand, if you don’t have enough interest in Tech to study it long enough to earn a degree, why should an employer expect that you’ll want to devote yourself to it as a career.

One of my daughters has earned two degrees in tech.  The respect she gets in her field is due to her accomplishments, not from pity for being a woman.  Diminishing the importance of qualifications so as to make women who couldn’t be bothered feel better, not only sabotages the businesses they work for, but disrespects all those (men AND women alike) who worked their tails off to earn their place. 
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This is word salad. I have no idea how this relates to a possible micro-aggression. If you are a woman in a STEM field, you are often still in the minority, especially as you are promoted. I don't understand what this has to do with "women who can't be bothered." [/quote]

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