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• Guy at Linux event:: Where do you work?

• Me:: (large software company)

• Guy:: So were you good enough to get in or did you get in through a women's quota?

• Later I tell some other guys from my own group. They have the guts to tell me that this is a legitimate question nowadays! Not only does my company not have a women's quota, obviously these men are imagining those employers that do would hire women with less qualifications than men, instead of the reality that this gives preference to women of equal qualification instead of "randomly" choosing an applicant, until the target quota is reached. I am a 30-year-old woman trying to enjoy a Linux event in Germany in 2011. Made me feel enraged.

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