UF Women Engineers on The Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley Discussion

Please watch this 5 mins and write three points about what the video talks about

300-400 words will do it! after you write your response, I will provide two comments of people that I already leave comments about the same video so you can respond to them ( 50-60 words each)

Here is the video.

https://www.wired.com/video/watch/women-engineers-…

Reply:

1)

After watching the video, the thing that impacted me the most was when one of the female engineers said that she felt like she couldn’t truly be herself and like she always had to filter herself. It’s really sad that they feel this way because they work in a male-dominated career. There a lot of biases in the engineering world, especially for women of color. Some of the women mentioned that they were treated differently by their male collegues and some even questioned their credibility. It is really frustrating that society still holds these biases that somewhow women (especially women of color) cannot be in engineering or other STEM careers. They should be able to feel comfortable being themeselves in their workplace, without needing to filter their character or defend their credibility as engineers.

2)

The video presents a footnote on how hard female engineers are in technology in general, and in Silicon Valley. All these female engineers are educated as the same as males at the university and work in the same field, but they still do not have equity in the workplace. At the same department, and everyone does the same job, but a male co-worker asks them “what are you doing here”. It is gender bias. There may be not many women in the engineer’s field compared with men, however, women female engineer is engineer, they can do the same work as men do. I found that this work field is not accommodated for women where is 12% of female, in contrast, 88% of male Also the demographics of engineers in the US shows on 0.4 American Indian and Alaska Native women, 1% Black women, 1% Hispanic women, 2% Asian and Pacific Island women, and *% white women, obviously, women in color, Native America, and Hispanic women face more difficulty on this field, and it is how Engineer on the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley represent, gender bias is always a huge problem in our society, especially engineer field.