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Name: Anonymous 2012-06-09 20:34

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-11 18:51

    The freedom to attend a technical conference without fear of sexual assault.
    The freedom to participate in social situations or stay at work late without fear that your co-workers or boss will assault you.
    If you have been assaulted in a work-related environment, the freedom to switch to another job and be sure it won't happen again there.
    Little likelihood that having been assaulted in a previous workplace is held against you in the hiring process.
    The freedom to walk home unafraid after a late-night coding spree.
    Freedom from fear that your open-source work will make you a target for death threats (note: linked-to post discusses sexual assault and violent threats against women).
    The freedom to have a closed-door discussion without worrying that this is an attempt to isolate you to carry out an assault. (See also: Othering)
    The likelihood that you will be able to share a hotel room with another member of your company, without fear of unwelcome advances or sexual assault.
    The ability to view your career in the male-dominated industry as just a normal stage of progression in life, rather than a serious financial gamble that may put your future in jeopardy if you invest in an education and are never hired due to resistence. Too much time spent fighting "glass doors" and not succeeding will lengthen resume gaps and periods of unemployment and result in loss of wages and opportunities that would accumulate over a lifetime, resulting in an impoverished situation in later years. Poverty is closely linked with living in unsafe neighborhoods and illness.
    Not being warned that there will be a backlash if you stand up for your rights.
    Not having your complaints about personal safety being dismissed as "Well, you chose to be there," in terms of being in a male-dominated environment, where your gender is not supposed to belong anyway.
    Not being perceived as wanting to "start a fight" when you stand up for your rights, thereby losing support from observers.

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