Mark Andersen
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

If you are good at coding, become an entrepreneur. Think of a need and then code your own idea and market it to create financial freedom you desire. If you need a team, build one, develop your work culture and maintain it just the way you want it. I would be truly interested to see what you come up with and how efficiently you can do it.

I am male. I have spent most of my working life working in female dominated, or almost exclusively female workplaces. There are vast differences in the culture between male dominated and female dominated work places and yes we have to adapt to fit in there. There were MANY things I found incredibly frustrating about working with women, but I got over it and got on with the job.

I do wonder why you posted an article like that on the team slack…. it did not have anything to do with the project. It was off topic and frankly, as a manager, I would have seen that as time wasting, and deliberately inflammatory and designed to cause discord in the team. It definitely did not add to the solution of the problem, or advance the project towards its conclusion and payday.

Admittedly your manager’s response was blunt but it was not inherently sexist. I know many women who use exactly the same term when off-topic opinions are proffered

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