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A consideration when reading this article: the author Julia Carrie Wong was also the author of the Guardian article that posited the low number of females follo
by icanhackit 9y ago
A consideration when reading this article: the author Julia Carrie Wong was also the author of the Guardian article that posited the low number of females followed by the Twitter accounts of Elon and other tech CEOs like Tim Cook were indicative of their and their company's attitude towards employing females and female perspectives in general [1].
The Tesla CEO reacted to the report defensively, accusing the publication of engaging in “phoney PC police axe-grinding”. But his choices do provide a certain amount of insight into what he, as an individual, finds interesting, and perhaps it isn’t surprising that a leader in an industry notoriously averse to hiring women also appears to be uninterested in the views of women as expressed on Twitter.
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So Elon, Tim, Bill, Brian, Eric, et al: here is a list of a few women in or around the tech industry you might want to try following on Twitter. They are not all CEOs, but they are all interesting tweeters who can help make your timeline look a little more like the world outside your companies.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/04/twitter-women-gender-elon-musk-tim-cook https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/04/twitter-w...?