As i sit here quietly by my cube, hearing other talks, laugh and see some walk around here and there, i realized i’m actually in a room of the 16 pax QA team and i’m the only girl, and i’m guessing the youngest too, hehe.
Its a little awkward at first but i’m adapting okay and its actually fun just listening to the guys talk about mostly sports, games and technology. Most of them are nice and friendly and i really don’t have a problem with any of them. I wish i’m more talkative and i could related to what they’re talking about but unfortunately I’m just this quiet little girl by the corner and doesn’t understand most of what’s up, sometimes because i really just don’t know anything about the topic and can’t relate and sometimes coz they talk so freaking fast i could barely understand them. But its fine, as long as they’re nice to me, i’m happy.
My friend Vidisha, who’s on the development team, is basically a rose among the thorns now too after the other girl left just a few weeks ago. So that makes both of us the only rose among the thorns in our respective teams.
This is a little weird for me of course, coz normally in the Philippines the number of girls and guys in a team is usually equal or its kinda rare to see a team with no girls or only a few. But here, i am surprised that men outnumbers women in the workplace especially in an IT company and team. In my whole company here, i think the women from all departments are like less than 30 or something and most of them are in HR, Finance, Marketing, etc. If you look at the Development and QA teams, there seems to be a scarcity of women. I don’t know how it is in other IT companies here in Utah but it is for mine.
