Are you a man who works in tech, writing code for a living? Do you work with women who do the same? Then you absolutely are at high risk of always assuming their code isn’t good enough… that you know more than they do, even when it’s their area of experience, even when they have years more experience than you do. Unless you are working to explicitly remove the sexism assumptions our society has drilled into you, you are also being sexist. That’s how culture works.

Please stop. Be introspective.

@jensimmons

I have noticed the bias. I hate it. My wife is a programmer. She’s smarter than me. (This is not a better half joke; she had better test scores, grades, and regularly shows it on a daily basis). I still have the bias.

I’ve rarely had the chance to work with women engineers. So it‘s hard to confront and recognize this bias. I thought maybe I could follow more women programmers here to try to work on that. Does that seem like a positive step to you? I’m going to try.