Joomleiras (Women Joomlers) have brave life

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Many who know one joomleira* think, "that cool! Woman in a male environment!". Unfortunately it is not so cool ... For many personal experiences in various work environments, dealing with men "in their territory" is a challenge, mainly because, although many already have opened their minds and see women in a positive way "competing "with them in the same space, creating and collaborating on projects and lines of code, there are still many sexist and" gallant ", who don't lose the opportunity to "flirt the girl" or disdaining of his knowledge and technical capacity (she has the qualifications and specialties that have).
 
These days, I saw in the newspaper the news that an outstanding and political power woman had been flirting during a meeting between shareholders of a company. Shocked? Well, at least a tremendous lack of respect for colleagues and especially with her that there should be seen as another shareholder in the room.
 
I have been through similar situations, especially at the beginning of my professional career, working as IT Hardware Support. I just adopting a defensive posture and "bad tempered" regardless of what was said to me outside the professional sphere. When managing work teams, or I was always "tested" by my colleagues or heard many jokes about my appearance (almost always social, but I was always very feminine).
 
I graduated in IT, I am a programmer, but had never dealt with PHP ... When I met Joomla and its community, was very well received and had many good tutors patients who helped me when I knew little or nothing about how the CMS works . I heard from some colleagues: "Wow! But you are so beautiful, why you want to learn this?" (hello? o_O). I Answered "to my guts": "because I prefer to use my brain and my ability to easily assimilated I have.
 
On my working environment I live with cases in which the client and / or business partner has already started the conversation with two or three questions to see if I understand the matter and only after confirmation that the work really begins. And still happens in the end a "wow, you're really good ." My will? Ask if "I were a man" the conversation would be the same. I sure don't.
 
I bear consulting and training to national and online businesses for foreigners, and is no different either. I do not believe in personal nature of compliments in the workplace, or as a justification of "being polite". I have seen situations to invite the managers (engineers) to meeting ... to go to the hotel "them" ... and so many more things you can imagine. I've seen a coworker cry of anger/sadness after going through an awkward position of these. And although some think exaggeration or as I hear, "no one flirting ugly woman". I usually answer: "You don't woo a woman on your workplace to please her. Be honest with work and attention this professional providing to you, and this will be the biggest and best compliment that you will. "
 
We know that there are "hunters of gifts", but please, judge a group by minorities is nowhere near reality. As we saw recently the media describing "some protesters depredate something all are thugs". Don't do like them. It's not because some girls no have more to offer than her looks that are all sluts/hookers.
 
And before you start typing "but you won several rights etc" see the woman in front of you as an IT professional. I request my clients and colleagues to see me as a man. Why?! Because it facilitates a lot when I want to discuss a technical issue or put me with more vigor in a matter which technically disagree and want to argue "to exhaustion".
 
Joomleira's* life is a woman's life that have to prove at all times and thoroughly that is as capable and intelligent (if not more) than any other man in the area (especially when it ingrained in lines of code and optimization of servers).
 
 
*Joomleira = a word in Portuguese (Brazil) it means Women Joomlers.