Equity for All?

How out of touch can you be?

So her company facilitates equity for tech workers, an industry whose goal is to 'disrupt' all other job markets. They justify this by claiming to empower individual workers. Her unique justification is to empower women in tech specifically.

She does not acknowledge that her company will benefit from this decrease in demand for labor, which will also affect women. She does not consider the countless women in legacy jobs that tech has eliminated, who stay at those jobs even after sexual harrassment, never mind filing suit (something that almost no one except serial executives is equipped to do).

Not to mention her completely unfalsifiable claim that the things she was fired for demonstrate sexism following from nothing other than the fact that she is female.

So she posts a hybrid call-for-cancellation and job posting, so she can hopefully get back to work disrupting asap.

I feel like we hear this story so often. I'm not sexist! I just happen to develop personal problems with any woman I work with that wants equal treatment! I suspect this is going to be very difficult to prove in a court though - drawing the line between personal issues and personal issues that are the result of (however subtle) sexism is very difficult.

It's going to be enjoyable to watch the company try and continue their woke marketing strategy whilst being sued by their former head of marketing for sexism though.

The story was not too compelling. Are some point I wondered if her ultimate aim was marketing or to achieve equity balance. That's an important difference ... Lack of openness will breed mistrust that can present like this. Also asking for a promotion after one year seems optimistic ... Usually you need three solid years to go up a big notch. Still, several woman close to me have been royally screwed by corps. And when HR has management's back, that nut is very very hard to crack.