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by noobermin 3815 days ago
TFA says:

>60% of women in Tech reported unwanted sexual advances.

>

> -- 65% of women who report unwanted sexual advances had received advances from a superior, with half receiving advances more than once

> -- 1 in 3 have felt afraid of their personal safety because of work related circumstances

(emphasis mine)

Power-imbalanced? Yes, for 39% of them, and 30% had some multiple times.

I agree that "unwanted advance" could mean someone asked me out and I didn't like them. I'll be honest, I don't deal with that problem myself because men aren't asked by women in our society, but I think you should define what you think draws the line between unwanted and inappropriate.

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I couldn't find that info despite clicking around in "TFA". Thanks.

"24% of women in Tech reported inappropriate sexual advances" is a less scary headline.

It's still way too high, but when you also factor in the selection bias and poor methodology, I have a very hard time taking these numbers at face value.

As for "afraid of their personal safety", that's subjective enough -- and introduces significant response bias in the already selective audience -- to be useless.

Side complaint, it'd be awesome if they put id's on the tags for each subheading, so linking to each would be a pinch.

If the authors are reading this, consider that.