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“The first female engineer hired at Google, and now the first female CEO of Yahoo, Mayer is something of a legend. She got her master’s from Stanford in computer science with a speciality in artificial intelligence, and is so intense in even casual conversation that I found myself tracking whether she ever blinks. She is also tall and blond, and regularly appears in society blogs at fancy parties on the arm of her entrepreneur husband, with whom she is expecting her first child. She is well aware that she is an unusual package, and has embraced the extra task of being a role model for aspiring girl geeks everywhere: “I do think it’s important for girls especially to know that there is not one way to break through. You can be into fashion and be a geek and a good coder,” she says. “You don’t have to give up what you love.”
Women at work: ‘Forget the balance. This is the merge’ | Money | The Guardian
Stephanie Booth is a freelance internet geek who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Digital Crumble is where she dumps all sorts of interesting stuff she finds online.
