The site has also being criticised for not encouraging women.
Yesterday (08 March - International Women's Day 2017) was a good time to reflect on how far we have come, but also on how far there is still to go before we reach true parity in the workplace and, perhaps unsurprisingly, in environments such as this. EF is a very male-dominated environment, but luckily does not seem to mind there being a few women here, but on some forums, the mere idea that a woman would be interested in things like Excel and VBA, let alone capable of becoming a power user, is anathema. This testosterone-fuelled nonsense can easily take a hold if it goes unchallenged. As a young teacher back in the early nineties, by which time you'd have thought things might have been better, I found myself working on a male-dominated staff in what was essentially a boys' school with anachronistic tendencies. The likelihood of being either bullied, patronised or sexually harassed by male colleagues was high (all three happened to me at some point or another), so you had to grow a set of balls very quickly yourself to cope. It wasn't right, but in a perverse sort of way I am glad I had the experience of it: nothing makes you stronger than surviving and then thriving in adversity. Sadly some female colleagues did not fare so well and were hounded out. The male bastions are fewer these days, but there will be pockets of it here and there. Whether SO is one of them, I can't say: I have never noticed any anti-female behaviour there, but I have certainly witnessed gross rudeness and ridicule, so I rarely dip into it.