[fruzz]

Retain rockstar programmers at all costs, even if they push everyone else to quit over being mistreated. Give them fancy job titles.

Have upper management crack sexist jokes, and HR laugh with them, so that women at the company who are sexually harassed know reporting it will do at best nothing, and at worst risk their own career.

Only hire young men in their twenties, and praise the idea of working long hours. Child care is for their wives to do.

Create artificial deadlines, that have no real-world repercussions for missing. But make it an urgency that must be done, instilling stress, and causing people to work long hours. Then after the deadline passes, note how it was unimportant, and repeat.

Have upper management make engineering decisions without accepting the input of engineers. Then when things blow up in a manner predicted by engineers, blame the engineers.

Pay new grads more than you do women engineers who have been at your company for years.

Have interviews that are focused on sports, and how much fun you would be at a party.

Praise the management style of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

[BlargMcLarg]

>so that women

Men aren't impervious to sexism either.

>Only hire young men in their twenties, and praise the idea of working long hours

Young women are working ridiculous hours as well.

>Child care is for their wives to do.

What child care, most of the highly educated aren't having kids to begin with. (Exaggerating, but it's not the big deal given what most career couples in their 30s make.)

>Pay new grads more than you do women engineers

That's universal as well, not specific to women only. Several companies are overcorrecting by overpaying younger women compared to both the older cohort and their male cohort, too.

[fruzz]

> Men aren't impervious to sexism either.

Men aren't impervious to sexual harassment, that's true. But in my career women have been overwhelmingly on the receiving end. I've seen a woman not be hired by a male interviewer because she was "too hot", I've had one woman tell me she was groped, a number been subject to unwanted sexual advances, and I've seen male staff cat call. I've had a manager massage me out of the blue. It's a gendered problem, the statistics bear this out, and acknowledging that is necessary in order to address it.

> Young women are working ridiculous hours as well.

That's not the point I was making.

> What child care, most of the highly educated aren't having kids to begin with.

That's not the point I was making.

> That's universal as well, not specific to women only.

Again, yes, Not Only Men, but there is a gender component to this that I am acknowledging.

[jmye]

> Men aren't impervious to sexism either.

Given that GP didn’t say they were, why is your first instinct to assume that anything OP didn’t mention, in what were fairly obvious examples, was specifically excluded?

> Young women are working ridiculous hours as well.

So are the elderly, why are you excluding them?

And so on.

Come on. There’s absolutely no need for the ridiculous pedantry, and it adds less than nothing to the comment chain. Be better.

[dmvdoug]

> There’s absolutely no need for the ridiculous pedantry, and it adds less than nothing to the comment chain. Be better.

But it sure does tell us a hell of a lot about the person who wrote it.