# Another Year Of Being in Gender Minority in Tech

DevFeed: [Another Year Of Being in Gender Minority in Tech](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/another-year-of-being-in-gender-minority-in-tech-38475.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eevis.codes/blog/2024-03-01/another-year-of-being-in-gender-minority-in-tech/>)

Author: Eevis Panula

Published: 2025-06-11T04:16:15.999000Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Eevis Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eevis-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>)

Tags: [content](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/content.md>), [gender-equality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gender-equality.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech.md>), [women-in-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/women-in-tech.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on another year as a gender minority in tech, describing exclusionary and misogynistic comments in tech communities and discussing allyship. The article emphasizes that dismissing reported problems can further exclude people from the field.

## Source excerpt

It's time for Dev's annual We Coded campaign again, and it's the fifth time I'm participating. You can find my previous contributions from the links above. This year, I want to share experiences from another year as someone in gender minority in tech. I'll share some not-so-pleasant experiences and, after that, some moments of allyship. Note that the stories I'm telling are from encounters with (assumed) men - and I'm referring to them generally as men here. I chose this approach because this celebration is about gender minorities in tech, and men belong to the majority. So, I'm not trying to paint a picture of men being something awful; it's more about the minority-majority aspect here. Also, a content warning: I'm sharing some comments containing misogyny. Sometimes it Just Sucks I've seen many men choose the path of not being a nice person. I'll share some stories from the past year alone. There was this conversation in one Finnish tech-related Slack community where someone shared a piece of news about women not feeling welcome in tech. Multiple men were telling how this all is 90% in the heads of women, and how the way to solve the issues would be to stop using words like "tech bro" when describing, well, tech bros, and that it's not a problem because they haven't witnessed it. When people who had witnessed and experienced the problems spoke up, they were either just ignored or told that they were "white knights," depending on the assumed gender. Oh, and that conversation had my all-time favorite argument: "What about the x, y, and z fields? They don't have a proper gender balance." And that was said in a tech-centered Slack community, where the talk was about how women in tech feel excluded. I don't know if you noticed, but the topic was about tech, not the other fields. I've also been told that women should respect men, and I don't belong even in a kitchen, but a cave, to learn about respect all the things men have done for me. This person made the threat in M