The funniest line from social media:
“Maybe it’s because we don’t need a computer to automate mansplaining when there’s already an excess supply produced by men,” answers one woman.
The funniest line from social media:
“Maybe it’s because we don’t need a computer to automate mansplaining when there’s already an excess supply produced by men,” answers one woman.
I am having difficulty following this line of reasoning, can you please help clarify? Why would being forced to prove your worth dissuade you from using a productivity tool? Are you implying women likely don’t have access to use it at all, or they don’t trust the output because the stakes are too high?
The issue here is that you consider it a productivity tool whereas misogynistic managers consider it a way for women to cheat.
I guess given your response, you are asserting their managers are gatekeeping access? Do you have personal experience in that regard?
I ask because we have made a massive, and frankly dumb, push to get everyone and their mother to use ChatGPT at work, from C level down to the call centers. Our metrics show around %60 of queries come from male employees, despite only %30 of our global staff being male. Given that communications and access were given to all employees via the same global communications channels, we attributed that to more men being willing to try gimmicky new software than women, but I wonder if something else is at play…
Honestly I can see it. Working in male dominated workplaces for so long (I am trans but they didn’t know that) taking any kind of physical or procedural shortcut, or ask for help even if it was common practice would cause my coworkers to assume that I couldn’t do it things the regular way or make them treat me as less competent even if I had done it alone or the more physically demanding way where they could see at some point in the past.
The general assumption of guys is that women are less capable and they don’t change their minds easily. There’s a big difference between regular competence and the sort of self protective over performance of competence which is nessisary to get a lot of cis guys to actually realize their assumptions are bullshit and to stop treating women like they are precocious children.
Usually doing one big thing that shatters their preconceptions does the trick. I once, in frustration at being treated like a china doll demonstrated I could lift a 200 lbs coworker and walk the length of the warehouse with him on my back. But doing that only creates me as an “exception to the rule” and they will resume that behaviour with all of my female coworkers.
If you aren’t given a chance to prove yourself capable in one big flashy way that gets the guys to shut up it can cause all manner of disordered overwork practice as you have to constantly perform for an audience of the disbelieving in small ways and hope they figure it out that they are being assholes.
No, not explicitly gate keeping access. But as a woman, you have experience that tells you, if you take any shortcut or easy way out, even if all the guys do it, you will be “confirmed” as less competent. It tends to be that women start from a perceived position of “not competent” whereas men start from a preceived position of “competent.” A guy has to have some obvious mess ups to fall from that assessment whereas women have to do a lot to rebut the assumption that they’re incompetent. So, as a woman, you are constantly trying to prove yourself, and you have to avoid anything that might undercut that. Using AI could easily be one of those things that undercut it.