Yep. It’s awful. And then you have the occasional other situation when it reinforces that women can’t be “real engineers” so a few of my friends and colleagues have been at booths at events and have to deal with awful sexist nonsense because of this being the awful sexist norm.
sounds like the booth babes you’ve dealt with either had no social skills or took no time to understand any of the products they were selling (ie, did a shit job)
Yep. It’s awful. And then you have the occasional other situation when it reinforces that women can’t be “real engineers” so a few of my friends and colleagues have been at booths at events and have to deal with awful sexist nonsense because of this being the awful sexist norm.
sounds like the booth babes you’ve dealt with either had no social skills or took no time to understand any of the products they were selling (ie, did a shit job)