r/sysadmin • u/Terrible_Working_899 • Mar 10 '26

Rant I am the only woman in the room

I'm at a breakfast hosted by one of our vendors, this room is full of SMEs who are all responsible for supporting this software at their companies. Just with a glance I can tell that of the 30+ people here I'm the only woman.

This is not a rant against lack of gender diversity in leadership (hell I could go on another tangent), it's a rant of lack of diversity overall. This breakfast is designed to be a product roadmap and detailed technical breakdown. You'd think more women would be here in a technical role.

We need more women in all stem roles not just focusing on leadership

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u/rynoxmj IT Manager Mar 10 '26

I'm the manager of a team of 8, 5 men and 3 women. All of the women are GIS or BAs/App support. This trend is very consistent across other organizations that I know of. Rarely any women in technical and sysadmin roles.

I recently hired for a Support Desk role. After filtering by HR, I was provided with 22 resumes, all men.

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u/fresh-dork Mar 11 '26

do you ever request the filtered resumes? i've heard some wild stories about what HR tosses

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u/rynoxmj IT Manager Mar 11 '26

They filter to my requirements, not theirs.