Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment

First time accepted submitter PvtVoid writes in with the story of Julie Ann Horvath alleging a culture of sexism at GitHub. "The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture at GitHub came as a surprise to some, given her former defense of the startup and her internal work at the company to promote women in technology."

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Re:One side of the story

[BitZtream]

Quiet honestly 'upfront and transparent' is illegal in almost every case.

They can not discuss the indecent with the general public unless they want this cunt to sue them to all hell and back after the fact for any of the many reasons she can come up with.

Companies aren't legally allowed to spew private conversations for your personal benefit, regardless of how much you think everyone else has no privacy and should share everything.

Contrary to what you think, running/working at a company as 'a boss' or an officer doesn't mean you can do whatever you want, and that includes talking about personnel performance and reviews, disciplinary measures and pretty much everything about the employee relationship.

Neither are unions

[Anonymous Coward]

Unions are never on your side. They are on their own side.

Re:That's capitalism.

[iluvcapra]

I think the problem is the implication that a woman being bossy is code-switching, but a man being a "cocksucker" isn't. Calling your boss a cocksucker generally isn't meant as a challenge to their authority per se, and being a "cocksucking asshole" is normative for high-status males in many parts of society. Women being "bossy" is never considered normative, though, it's always transgressive.

Also the term isn't as important as the behavior itself. It's not that women get called "bossy," it's that they get called bossy for merely exercising their authority.