A type of office housework is helping others with their work. As this woman engineer notes, her male colleagues avoided helping others by being "outright rude or dismissive to those asking for assistance, deterring people from reaching out again."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-worked-tech-industry-15-214617926.html
@amydiehl I once had a male boss who chastised me for helping a colleague with a project ("don't you have enough work", etc.). His female second in charge denied that it happened when I told her about it.
One place I worked at was, let’s say, cheaper to it’s workers (lower compensation and an uphill battle to get resources purchased which drove away colleague after colleague) but very diverse.
I know it’s a data point of one but most people, regardless of gender, were extremely helpful.
I did find that the better paying, internally competitive places were full of people stingy with their time (a few good exceptions exist).
The first place knew that collaboration was the only way to deal with lack of resources. There is camaraderie in the lower decks.
I am hoping other workplaces can come to that realization without being resource starved, and not leave the help and glue work disproportionately up to the women, and those men who are kind and smart.
I thought Chris Hayes summarized it well...
'A huge part of this has been these pathological expressions of gender frustration by men who seem to think that the real way to “be a man” is to insult people and endlessly whine about DEI and the unfairness of the world to rich dudes.'
'We are under the thumb of desperately thin-skinned men who are convinced, as New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie put it, “that ‘masculine’ energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.'
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-maga-weird-masculinity-rcna188188
@amydiehl
Zuckerberg is a complete huckster. Remember when he was known as a woke liberal? Now that conservatives have the upper hand in government, all of a sudden he's part of the manosphere. He just kisses the ass of whoever's in power. The ultimate "snake in a suit".