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I think the perception itself that tech is not a nice place for women is counterproductive. Let me name a few women leaders in tech: CEO of Yahoo, Facebook, CFO of Google, head of YouTube, head of Google's cloud (tens of thousands of engineers report to her), and I can go on.
I think people who are not really working at tech do not understand how far we have come. There is a disparity and we need more to do but dismissing how far we have come is counterproductive. The internal company data I have seen shows that women are actually paid higher salaries to their peers on average in some big tech companies. Women with technical background are present at all levels from CEO to VP to directors to senior engineers to junior engineers and those in leadership positions have got there over a tech career that span over a decade. So while admitting that there are still problems let's not act as if tech is hostile to women or that the only reason there is not equal representation is sexism. The are personal preferences, there are pipeline problems, there are cultural perspectives that prevent women from chosing tech, there are structural issue that hinder the women's sense of belonging to tech, ... and these contribute way more to problems than closet sexists who are in absolute minority at least in big companies like Google.
Aug 20, 2017, 10:23:33 AM
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