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My position as the only female that was trained and was supposed to start a lead tech / repair position was taken away.

My lead tech role matches the males I work with and I have been denied a raise for being at the top of the scale but raises have been given to the males.

When a repair position opened and I applied the manager, HR rep asked questions different from the other interviews. I was told it was a bad interview but the manager sat inappropriately and the HR person later lied and defended the interview as not perfect.

I was the only lead tech to not receive a raise with the others at that time all the same day. I was next in line ro begin repair and instead they hired back an ex employee as manager and I was told now I have to wait a year.

I have no one to speak with , every day im getting more down on myself and am stuck doing a job that isn't the job I agreed to or was told I was going to have. I should be making 30 an hour .

The open positions for repair were given to 2 less skilled and younger men.

What can I do ?

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    If you think this is gender discrimination you should contact a local labor lawyer. Laws, culture, and rules around this vary greatly around the globe, so adding a country tag would be extremely helpful
    – Hilmar
    Commented May 2 at 18:31
  • What you can do is: First, tell your management that this isn't what you signed on for and you're getting frustrated. Second, start looking for a job that's a better fit, in case manglement can't or won't fix it.
    – keshlam
    Commented May 2 at 23:13
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    The title of this post is "Taken for Stupid". I don't think this is an accurate description. It is more like your company discriminate against you on the basis of your gender (based on the description of your post).
    – Job_September_2020
    Commented May 3 at 1:59
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    The tittle needs to be changed, it doesn't reflect anything related to the text.
    – Or4ng3h4t
    Commented May 3 at 8:48
  • How exactly were you aware of the fact different questions were asked?
    – Donald
    Commented May 3 at 11:57

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It seems all you can do is starting to look for better job offers.

Unless you can prove without a shadow of a doubt that your performance is better than some/most of them. Then you hypothetically maybe could argue that it was discrimination based on your gender, that, in itself, might never achieve anything in court.

Unless you have a written email where they express something like "I don't want to promote her, she's a woman", then it's a slam dunk.

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    Yeah, as a woman in tech who that has also happened to - it's hard to prove but easy to leave and find something better.
    – thursdaysgeek
    Commented May 3 at 15:42

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