florbs

"Women seem to have less of an issue with it, especially when there are no men around to give them condescending looks." I think that's the point right there: in the tech work space, it IS mostly men. Someone may speak up once or twice to ask a question, but when surrounded by people who generally don't, you just don't feel like being the annoying one all the time who holds up discussion.

Hangouts on web should work on other browsers too, obviously some better than others, but work nonetheless.