Gender based Gang up

GE
oneofakind

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oneofakind
Nov 7, 2020 6 Comments

If you are of minority gender in your team 1:4 , where the majority are of the same age and gender , did you ever experience others gang up against you? Always disagree with any of your opinions / suggestions ?

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  • New
    cosmicc

    New

    cosmicc
    You have to keep pushing your ideas and suggestions until you hear an explicit “no”. And when that happens, ask them to give you solid reasons why they disagree. Force them to think through your suggestions before dismissing them.
    Nov 7, 2020 3
    • New
      cosmicc

      New

      cosmicc
      Then I guess you should focus on finding yourself a better team/company. That looks like the only option here
      Nov 7, 2020
    • Amazon
      🥑 toasts

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      🥑 toasts
      At some point it’s not worth your effort and better spend that energy finding a better team/job, you might just find yourself landing a hire TC too.
      I haven’t faced gender based gang up but my previous job it was a constant uphill battle to persuade people to accept certain ideas, long story short it’s a startup where everyone’s pretty junior but have been at that company since early days so they held a defensive attitude toward new intermediate and senior hires, I was able to get a lot of my ideas through but I’m rather blunt (especially for a woman) and persistent, took a lot of standing your ground and finding allies to help sell your ideas, and it often took some level of “let me do the ground work to show you why this idea works”, definitely not fun and my team now have people who actually take my opinions seriously from the get-go and it makes team work so much easier.

      If I could offer anything useful is that being “nice” doesn’t do anyone any good, be firm about what you want if you really think your idea benefits the project, don’t include words like “just” in your pitches, it really diminishes your ideas
      Nov 7, 2020
  • Capital One / Eng
    WAbz84

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    WAbz84
    I haven’t experienced this but try to find an advocate. If someone they respect validates you enough, then they might back down.
    Nov 7, 2020 0
  • Ironclad
    69.420

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    leave me the f alone
    69.420
    Change team
    Nov 7, 2020 0