"The Tech Industry's Gender-Discrimination Problem: The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse. More and more, women are pushing for change," by The New Yorker's Sheelah Kolhatkar.
What's happening: "[A]fter years of attempting to resolve harassment and discrimination complaints through ineffectual human-resources departments, or through lawsuits kept quiet by powerful attorneys, women have found a path that produces results: gathering an unimpeachable number of witnesses and going public."
- "According to women I spoke with in Silicon Valley, more allegations have yet to emerge."
- "Almost half the women who go into technology eventually leave the field, more than double the percentage of men."
- "This inhospitable climate is partly a result of tech's hugely imbalanced gender ratio. Studies estimate that women make up only a quarter of employees and eleven per cent of executives in the industry."
- "There have, of course, been other male-dominated fields notorious for similar behavior, including Wall Street and Madison Avenue. But part of what differentiates tech is the industry's self-regard, as a realm of visionary futurists and tireless innovators who are making the world better."
