[nojvek]

Not a female but I've experienced similar bias. I was in a big 5 Co and a project had a number of Indian outsourced testers. Even though I was a dev who contributed equal to others I was seen as a second class citizen doing mostly simple html/css work.

I just got frustrated one day and switched teams. New team was much better at treating me like a peer. It was a smaller team so there were a ton of opportunities to grab more responsibilities.

May be you should look into a smaller team where you can have more ownership and larger impact.

Now I'm at a startup and I absolutely love it.

[thinkaboutit113]

Thanks for the input! I've thought about it previously but the work I do is cutting edge and have room to learn a lot from colleagues, if I ignore the bias.

But you're right, in the long run I do plan to switch. I'll have to start passively looking out for new opportunities. I do dread having to spend time to prepare for the all day generic white-board interviews while I could be better off spending it on learning new tools or hacking on a side project.