[ae_keji]

Is sexism a side effect of engineers being assholes or is engineers being assholes a problem because sexism exists so much in the first place? It's very easy to blame a company or a subculture as being sexist, but no one thinks about how the entirety of Western society is still damn sexist. The fact that makeup exists, for example. Women are universally expected to be subordinate and seen before heard. Women keep getting pushed around because that's what our social structure expects them to do. Engineers not being assholes isn't going to solve the problem. Women being assholes, and everyone getting used to that, just might.

[KaiserPro]

I broadly agree here, but I'd suggest that its more nuanced than 'western culture' sexism in britian is different to in america.

However, I work in tech, so I can't comment on other areas. But I'd love engineers to stop being arseholes, it make life much easer, and we'd get more things done.