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Ageism hits women harder than it does men.
All the "which do you think would make you happier" section answers put the responsibility on me to fix my issues with being a woman in STEM. I need my male colleagues to not talk over me and to verify they heard what I have to say. I would like my fair share of eye contact during technical discussions. I'm sick of the constant pissing matches that come from a solution not being a particular dev's solution so we have to refactor said existing solution AGAIN. As someone who is talked over and is denied eye contact, how hard do you think I have to fight to be heard or have my solutions last? Being told I'm recognized as talented in my field, only to have some basic computer science concept explained to me in the speaker's next breath (I do think this is a general geek problem so I won't call it mansplaining but the behavior is exhausting all the same).
A lot of my male co-workers don't want to see or are completely oblivious to the sexism that their f