UK IT Employee

I work for a large multi-national IT organisation. Despite fine words about supporting diversity, in practice there continues to be a strong bias in favour of men doing the clearly technical stuff and women with equivalent or greater skills being given or directed towards less technical roles, with a strong focus on supportive records management,policy and compliance roles, and often isolating or clustering women together, away from the more high profile and high status strategic, decision-making technical roles.
Women also continue to have to justify and prove themselves to different staff at different levels, where there remains a tendency for men’s skills and competence to be assumed as satisfactory without question, from the outset.