Hello,
Anyone out there who works for a male dominated industry and wants a place to rant/share?
I work for the games industry. There are lots of things I like about my job but being (yet again) the only woman in the company can grind me down and make me feel so alienated.
It has a cumulative effect. And some days I feel less sensitive to it than others. But casual comments about women's bodies and that general sense that they are a group of men talking amongst themselves, and I am an aberration, an outsider, leaves me feeling alone and upset sometimes.
Sometimes I point out stuff which is unacceptable but often I just ignore it, because to constantly try to educate a group about gender issues when I am completely on my own is - tiring, reinforces my sense of alienation and makes me feel vulnerable.
A lot of the men I work with are great. A lot of the time there is no problem. And I do think it has got better during the decade I have been working as a 3D artist. But it ALWAYS comes back to this, for me.
I suppose someone could say, well, why do you work in that industry then? But I am not going to back away from my career, and something I am very good at, because of entrenched chauvinism.
Anyone else?
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OovoofWelcome · 19/11/2012 11:40
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