Oct
7
“The women of Silicon Valley do not live in such a shiny, detached bubble that they don’t recognise sexism. You would have to be blind to walk through the offices of Facebook or Google every day and not notice the sea of mostly male programmers, or the “frat house”, as Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, calls it. These women don’t deny sexism, but rather will themselves to ignore it so they can get their work done. Their attitude is neither idealistic nor defiant, but highly practical: better just to workshop these situations one by one, like so many coding glitches, one de-gendered brain to another.”
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.
