“The technology sector can be a lonely place for women workers, particularly those in senior roles, who are few and far between,” Clare O’Connor reports for Forbes.Men hold 82% of leadership positions, on average, at Google, Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the industry’s biggest companies.”
“Women who do land roles in Silicon Valley are faced with pervasive, systemic sexism,” O’Connor reports. “A recent survey of senior women tech executives revealed 60% have been on the receiving end of unwanted sexual advances in the workplace. Of these women, 65% reported having received such advances from a superior.”
“Enter Fairygodboss. The year-old Glassdoor-like online job review site for women has been collecting data from over 20,000 user submissions to rank tech companies where female employees feel they’re treated as equal to their male counterparts,” O’Connor reports. “Since the startup launched these rankings in February, Apple has held onto the top position on all three tech-related lists, which update daily as new data comes in. 72% of women respondents working at Apple reported being treated fairly. Coming second and third on the list: Google and Microsoft, with 59% and 58% respectively.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Good news and more progress to be made, of course.
MDN, planning to walk your talk and bring a female contributor on board?
Well, their ads seem to have plenty of women in them.
The ads that show up on this website are disgusting, and completely irrelevant to the content. If I wanted smut, I’d have visited other websites.
It will be incredible once we get past the Cave Man attitude toward women in technology.