Men hoarde critical career information from women

Thank you for sharing this.

Happy to help ❤️

here, take my fake internet gold!

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Oh, yes... call me weird but I wish media targeted at teenage girls would cover topics like "How to get a scholarship", "How not to end up in credit card debt", "How to make a budget", "What is investing and how does it work" next to all the celebrity and fashion stuff sometimes.

I was lucky enough to have a father who taught me the basics of budgeting, saving money and staying out of debt and a great teacher at school who taught us the basics of investing (in a "How does the stock market and investing work and what do all the words actually mean?"-way with the very, very important messages of "The people at the bank will recommend you the products they get the highest commissions for and not necessarily the products that are best for you" and "Never invest into something you don't fully understand").

Without both of that, who knows if I would have ever felt confident enough to even get into it or if I -like so many other women, especially women from poor backgrounds - would have just considered all that "something only rich white men can do".

I know so many women (and not just older women) who were never taught any of it, even if they come from a well-off background and their fathers made a lot of money through investments. Promoting and perpetuating the whole "My husband handles the finances" scheme has always been and will always be one of the main ways to control and oppress women.

Oh thanks i’ll check that out!

OMG, yes, this. I didn't get my financial act together until my 30s, when I started reading personal finance books and wondering why the hell nobody had given me a clue earlier.

And yet even women who agree with me on this still look at me like I shot their dog when I say I don't go 50/50 on dates and don't spend money on men.

I have found how to use and throw men the Dominatrix way also works here.

You will have to use your every single brain cell but if you get scrotes at workplace competing for your attention span, you will have them by the b*lls.

A lot of women progress like that because it is the only way even if we are the best talent in aggregate, a bunch of crabs will still bring you down. I try to divide and conquer.

For example, in the tech industry, there is teamblind.com. It is anonymous and people (mostly men) talk about salaries, interviews, promotions, career hacks and tips, etc. You can find out about forums in your industry from many sources - sometimes a male colleague will mention it in passing, sometimes you’ll hear about it in a news article, or a reference through a google search or social media. Lurking is absolutely right, because they’re so drenched in toxic masculinity that I wade through the sludge and take the information that is useful to me.

Thank you so much for this resource. This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to find and share here.

That sucks and makes me so angry for you that you have to deal with that kind of alienation, I'm sorry. :( I hope you're able to move to a workplace where you'll be appreciated at some point.

Thank you for saying that. I have one foot out the door already. I will finish my degree in a couple of months, and then I'm gone for good. I'm scared but excited, it feels like leaving a LVM, which it pretty much is.

Yessss!! Congrats on graduating, you totally got this!!! 👏

OK that medical & engineering part makes me angry

They could actually kill someone with their carelessness

same. let a scrote talk and he’ll divulge everything! guy worked as a veterinary doctor pretty much illegally while the actual vet golfed all week.

>Another thing for women to watch out for is when a woman is hired for high profile job or off the street (= applying to job posting, as opposed to through own network), those jobs can be real liabilities by design. Some scrotes have fucked something up at work and now they are looking for a woman to hang all responsibility on to.

This happened at my ex-job! (the one I discuss in my comment upthread)

Senior management at my old company was a total boy's club and within the span of 2 years, laid off or pushed out over HALF the company. Of course women suffered the most. I knew it was time to go when the last woman in the C-suite was pushed out in retaliation for whistleblowing.

I also had dinner with 5 other women who left the company before I did. Smart, hardworking women who kept the company going. They all had stories of sexual harassment, being ignored and passed over for promotions, etc.

And I mean, their stories were RIDICULOUS...

One woman had an MBA and previously worked as a quant at a top investment bank. She got passed over for a senior data role that went to a 24-year old guy who just graduated with an English degree.

Another woman kept getting ignored by senior sales guys who were supposed to train her. Eventually she gave up and went elsewhere, where within the year she broke an industry record for millions of dollars in a single sale. It established her reputation in the industry as an MVP. She will never lack for a job to the day she retires.

When word got back to our CEO, he was like, "WTF?? She didn't accomplish anything like that while she was here!" No shit, asshole, you ignored her.

ANYWAY, my point is senior management has run this company into the ground through mismanagement to the point of malfeasance - literally rehiring men who'd been fired for embezzlement while pushing out women who kept the company going. By the time I left, the company was hemorrhaging millions of dollars a month.

Now I hear the board of directors has just fired most of the C-suite and installed one of the last surviving senior women as the new CEO. She's a total pickme and lapdog for the boys club that just got fired, completely incompetent, and will take the blame when the company inevitably folds, because it's beyond saving at this point.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Pickmes never prosper. They just get left holding the bag and all the blame.

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Oh, and there's a 2nd lesson here too...

Never underestimate how committed men and their handmaidens are to misogyny. They'll hate women even when doing so destroys their own interests in ways they can measure in bankruptcy and ruining their own careers. It's crazy.

this also needs to be pinned at the top for all of FDS to read.

The one I referred to working 3 jobs worked one doing retail/electronics area I think I' not sure his position, then he does side gigs like flipping/delivery/whatever hustle. His main job I couldn't figure out but it must be an office position cause he ended up remote working for awhile. He lives alone in a not so great apartment, has a car and some bare minimum independent adult-male lifestyle. Another ex used to work as OPs management in UPS., i think he lived in a detached home with extended family but sure has money to be spending on gyms and getting beefed $$$ up, living the vida loca.

My dad works at a factory that makes the iv bags and its basically the home's main bread. The men he talks about at his work are scrote defcon level 5, many of them cheating on spouses, multiple baby mommas but my dad says they all either go to casinos, gamble, have houses and what not. Meanwhile the young women that end up working there usually work there but the turn over is high, then they move on to the abyss.

This confirms there are a lot of walls invisible to us put in our way to stop us from progressing.

“scrote defcon level 5” 💀💀💀