The bolded exactly! This website is so mean to gays... and gays quiver in fear 😆. God forbid we have any gays in power on here.

Or maybe if those gays have a voice. Sorry to say if i found your sarcasm bad.

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Should've been the first post tbh. Instead we got sir Pbroy. 

Yeah, whatever that means. If people want to read up on the class action, they can go to the website ( http://microsoftgendercase.com ) They are looking for other females to report their experiences. Which means they are looking for evidence to build this case.

And about the gay thing. The Site Admin is gay, along with the head mod and many members. There is a lot of gay love around here. 😙

Is that the new "I have black friends so therefore I'm not racist". 

I intended to say that in the IT industry, the one we are talking in here, I personally haven't seen any discrimination. It's a male dominated environment simply because fewer women choose that field. And between the few many have got promoted. So yes, it is black and white. Still I keep reading that it is a sexist environment.

I realize now you were talking in more general terms (sorry, it's quite late here) but still my impression is that although sexism does (and always will) exist, the discrimination is another thing. If we are talking about salary gaps in big corporations like MS those are not really possible. Because there are seniority levels, and each level has a salary range.

Indeed I've found an interesting report about the best 25 tech industries for women that confirms what I just wrote:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/best-tech-employers-for-women-2014-11?op=1

With no surprise MS is there.

I just know that when in a big company one in a team of 20, 30 or even 100 people gets promoted or publically recognized for the work done many colleagues are pist off, because they feel they were better. So a common feeling is "why him/her? I did much more!". WIth the difference that when it's a guy getting the promotion some may dismiss it as a case of brown nosing, some women think "I'm better, I deserved the promotion. But I'm a woman, he is a man ERGO the company is sexist!". 

Thanks for the link. Large reason I don't try to participate in these types of threads mainly because the opinions formed are based aren't factually backed. That said, including the link, I think this is a wait and see thing so I personally have nothing to say about this. So I'll stay away from this thread.

What I will say is that before even joining I knew this, so whoever was jumping to that is being very innapropriate in order to bolster their argument, and it is really disrespectful to you and everyone else here on this site, especially over a serperate opinion. 

No, it's "I have gay friends and I'm not gay."

If I have black friends, it doesn't make me black.

You see, you're bringing negativity into thought processes that shouldn't even be there. Negativity is what makes you believe you are being wronged when you really just aren't good at what you do. 😄

Seriously though, what's up with the gay cats? You homophobing when you said others do? 😆