/u/SearchAtlantis asks
I'm a senior level dev and two of my colleagues (women) just came to me with an incident that in a larger context sounds like soft-sexism.
oh no workplace discrimination! This must be stopped!
Yesterday they had a meeting with a few other people including their line-manager and a surprise on the spot ask for them to write documentation.
they were forced to write documentation for software. This is worse than the handmaid's tale 
I mean, the immediate solution is to volunteer yourself.
do their work for them.
when their line manager asked them to write documentation, you could have asked them if maybe they'd prefer to work on technical bits for once
ok so you two write the documentation
actually I think they should do something else you chud.
who let you in here?
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Or because they did a good job the last time they had to do this...
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The one comment saying that got the
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Women in my job get these bullshit make work "documentation" jobs for shit that doesn't need documenting because after 2+ years of not knowing how to code they still don't know how to write code
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They get "product owner" positions here where they're secretaries who are given make-work everyone else normally does
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and men have to carry heavy things at their jobs because they are men boo hoo
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men and women are not equal...once that is recognized we can move on and figure out how to solve the problems...without women because they just get in the way and complain...
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This was recognized but people forgot and now everyone is paying for it.
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Isnt a secretarial job just a blowjob?
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