Tech pani are creasgly acceptg of gays and lbians
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WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SOFTWARE ENGEERS?
Meyer is days, engeers and the anizatns that employ them may accept the need to diversify the profsn terms of race, genr, relign, and physil abili, but sexual orientatn remas a prickly topic�wns the recent ntroversy over gay marriage the U. He rells male classmat engeerg school jokg about gays ont of him, obliv to his sexual orientatn. Thgs might be tougher for gay men engeerg, a profsn that is tradnally "whe, male, and nservative, " Meyer says, bee "gay [men] are stereotypilly nsired feme and weak and more to artsy stuff.
C., advocy anizatn for the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (GLBT) muny, attus are shiftg. " Many high-tech employers, for example, now clu gays and lbians their diversy 's still room for improvement, though. In the HRC x, most of the tech employers that offer benefs to gays (such as health-re verage for domtic partners) still don't clu transgenred dividuals their equal-employment polici.
Workplace, as society, gays and lbians are not yet regnized as a group that serv benefs and legal protectn. "It is still legal 36 stat to fire employe who are gay, " says Daryl Herrschaft, puty director of HRC's WorkNet, a program that provis up-to-date rmatn on workplace polici and laws throughout the Uned Stat. " Even though she hadn't seen overt discrimatn, she didn't tell -workers she was a lbian, bee she didn't feel that most people were aware of, and fortable wh, gay and lbian today are much more acceptg of the GLBT muny, Icenogle says.