A female engineer who left GitHub will appeal for improvement by clarifying harassment within the company


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Julie Ann Hovers, who was known as "GitHub's first female engineer", retired from the company in March 2014. Hovus who seemed to have been active without taking gender difference at workplaces with many men, but the tweet posted before and after retirement is spelled out by her troubles and problems that are hidden inside the company , GitHub is announcing a comment on the official blog.

Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit | TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-exit/

Update on Julie Horvath's Departure · GitHub
https://github.com/blog/1800-update-on-julie-horvath-s-departure

Here is Tweet of Mr. Hovus who was tweeted after quitting GitHub and changing job. "I am very happy to be able to join a healthy environment that does not allow internal harassment," he said.

Mr. Hovas is a shared web service for software development projects as the first female developer in 2012GitHubJoined the company. In addition to serving as a member of engineers, the site aimed at "lighting out noteworthy achievements of women · building role models of female engineers within the industry"Passion Projects"Was launched.

Passion Projects
http://passion-projects.github.com/


Mr. Hovas said that he was still a small organization, "a place where people who make something useful for things will gather" about GitHub when he joined. At the time the workplaces were only men, there seemed to be a cooperative atmosphere for female staff.

However, the atmosphere gradually changes, and it will be done jointly when developing one softwarePull requestIt is said that Mr. Hovas' personality became a topic and it came to encounter inappropriate situation. Mr. Hovas said that "GitHub's organizational constitution, which has gradually increased in number of women, has been raising problems," I was treated differently by gender rather than the result of my work. "

According to the following tweets, Mr. Hovas said, "I regret that I have defended GitHub's internal culture over the past two years, I am sorry for those who have hurt me because of my actions," said Hovas You can see how it regrets what you have endured while repelling culture.

In addition to the above reasons, Mr. Hovas reveals that there was pressure from 'the wife of Mr. A, the founder of GitHub' while avoiding the real name. Mr. A revealed in the office every day despite being not an employee of GitHub and caught up near Mr. Hovas, he said that he repeatedly took action like observing the whole work.

One day, Mr. Hovas receives a liquor invitation from Mr. A. He was Mr. Hovas who briefly accepted the invitation because he wanted to find a target person at that time, but he felt that it was a different situation from the atmosphere that he thought was soon is. Mr. Hovas was looking forward to being able to speak frantically, but what he actually exchanged was the pride of "how I am influencing the decision of a husband who is one of the founding members of GitHub" and " Hovus says that it is better not to quit GitHub and it is better to not say bad things about GitHub. " This is a person who was one of GitHub founder and a husband of Mr. A to Mr. A told Mr. A that "I work hard so that the girl will leave GitHub and leave that inconvenience to the company It seems that it was designed to plan to not feel like "I am enjoying working" so that it does not exist.

Besides this, Mr. Hovas says Mr. A has tried to grasp details of Hoover's work carefully as "It is responsible for employment of employees". In addition, I propose to send Mr. Hovas "spy" inside the company and propose to look into the situation and to steal the contents of the conversation by illegally invading the chat room given to the individual.

Mr. Hovas said that while choosing words about this subject, he is "crazy". "Over the past two years I have been harassed by" upper part "and I am tweeted that I will become the first developer to leave the company.

In addition to the above-mentioned power harassment by Mr. A, I am also a sexual harassment because I am a woman, I feel uneasy as sexual words are embedded in the code of the program that I was jointly developing, It is said that an incident occurred that Mr. Hovas' code was erased when being refused with a refusal.

And eventually a decisive event will come to Mr. Hovas. Mr. Hovas who was playing with a colleague's female staff and hula hoops during a break on one day. Suddenly, it seems that male employees were looking at Hovas without saying anything. Horvus, who looks back at the scene at that time as "It was like a strip club," he decided to retire from GitHub.

"To me it is regrettable not to leave GitHub, but what I had patience to work at GitHub was that it was not acceptable, and nobody was aware of that," Hovas said.

For these Hovas' tweets, Chris One Strace, one of the founder of GitHub, posted comments on his blog. The fact that we started investigation on this matter, that we temporarily canceled the founder and employee, and that the founder's wife banned entering and exiting the office by confirming that he did not have a personnel right It has been made clear.

Also, as GitHub grew rapidly over the past two years, I acknowledged that the improvement of internal organization did not catch up as a result, and thanked Hovas for appreciation and apology.

Update on Julie Horvath's Departure · GitHub

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