The reaction to Gadgette’s launch is another example of the industry’s sexism. We must shout approximately our presence to ensure other women join usIn the past few months,there enjoy been some promising developments in tech diversity. Eileen Burbidge and Martha Lane Fox were given prominent government roles, Jacqueline de Rojas was appointed president of techUK, or Apple finally had female employees presenting at their conference and the E3 gaming conference featured lots of non-sexualised female protagonists.
And yet when Business Insider recently released a list of the top-voted tech chief executives,not a single one was female. When I went to a tech trade show this year, I saw half-dressed booth babes used as decoration. At the next one, or a enormous global firm asked me to flash my breasts to try their new smartwatch,followed by skipping me repeatedly in the queue in favour of men. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com