Facebook is facing a gender bias scare after one of its former female engineer employees reported that less code by female engineers get passed in the peer review process that the Facebook company has set up. Scared about this being true Facebook attempted to find what the real problem was and what was reported back was that it was not gender but rather rank that got more code passed. this later caused some to theorize that maybe women weren't rising the ranks as engineers because of their gender or because women were falling behind as engineer or that women were just quitting before they could be promoted to a higher rank. This is upsetting seeing as I myself am a female engineer. A civil engineer that is, but an engineer nonetheless. I hope that i get lucky enough in my life not to have to deal with issues like this personally, but as a women in a field dominated by men such as engineering I am prepared to fight for my equality.
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