What other bias might happen with females in the IT field?

First, the dress code needs to be a little sexy yet beautiful. However, be careful about who asked about this dress code. At the beginning of my career, like most females, I dressed lady suite and style. After my first job in Taiwan, some of my co-work (all males) were asking me to be their mistress. I don't feel comfortable and sick about their thought and want to keep my distance while working with them. Therefore, I stopped dressing like a lady and toward the town boy style. The only times I dress like a lady are meetings for interviews, in the conference, and the end of year party. Even dressed like a town boy, there are some males who still use words to bais or abuse me or other females.

Second, married or not. If a male does not get married, most people are saying that they are still young and they could get married late as they want. However, at the beginning of our career, a lot of people care about whether we get married or not, or if we have a boyfriend and plan to get married soon or not. While I asked them why to do that, most of the time the actual answers I got as:

• It is good to get married so that you could have someone to complain about things that happened in the job.
• It is good to have someone to look after, especially if you do not have a job.
• It is good to get married or even get children so that you do not have time to think after work.
  For me, after years of discussion, I found while people tell you those ideas. Especially your boss, you might need to be aware of what is in their mind. Most of the time, they are using other ways to ask you to leave the company.

Third, out of emotion control. While a male gets angry and yells in the meeting, people usually will say that he is so insistent on some points which might be right. However, while a female gets angry and yells in the meeting, people usually will say that she is so emotional or she is out of her temper. Another example is, while a male is discussing some topics for a while, people usually will say that he is full of curiosity. However, while a female is discussing some topics for a while, people usually say that she is so stubborn. Sometimes, we discuss why it happened. In the end, we found out that it came from a society which we've been told since we are young that females could be emotional and males could not be. However, during the time of my career, we do see a lot of males are even more emotional than females.

To mention all of the issues is not only to remind ourselves to be aware of how we talk and behave, yet hope that we could see a person as an individual but not only within gender.