[dunpeal]

> The tipping point came in January, when management offered additional stock to a handful of high-level male engineers, including Westergard. Employees suspected Lanetix planned to fire lower-level female engineers, many of whom graduated from Hackbright, an all women’s coding boot camp, as did the female engineer fired in November.

What's the full story here?

Layoffs typically happen when a company has cashflow issues preventing it from meeting payroll. "Low level" (read: low paid) employees of any kind are _not_ the first on the chopping block, but on the contrary, the higher paid employees who each cost x3-4 times or more.

Moreover, why would they get rid of most/all female engineers like that? Among other problems, that would expose them to an open-and-shut discrimination case, since sex is a protected class.

This, in conjunction with the fact they decided to pay the senior engineers even more, tells me there's something more to this story.

[gaius]

there's something more to this story.

Maybe I’m just hopelessly jejune but I find it hard to believe in 2018 moustache-twiddling top-hat wearing Capitalist fatcats were like bwahahaha let’s sack all the women.

Of course they absolutely deserve to be sued into oblivion, I just don’t see the gender angle, correlation is not causation.

Edit: oh I see, they were hired from a gender-segregated bootcamp. So sexism is baked into the company’s DNA.