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> Silicon Valley really is a man’s world. Men have great ideas. Men code. Men attract money. Men fund start-ups. Men generate jobs. Men hire other men. Men are
by reitzensteinm 12y ago
> Silicon Valley really is a man’s world. Men have great ideas. Men code. Men attract money. Men fund start-ups. Men generate jobs. Men hire other men. Men are the next Steve Jobses, the innovators, the inventors, the disruptors. But women complete the tasks that men have not yet programmed computers to do, the tasks that make their “genius” and their “innovation” possible. And they do it for pennies.
So imagine transposing this, saying that all of the work done by women at fashion houses was only made possible by the male construction workers that built their offices. You'd be laughed out of the room, and deservedly so.
The issues surrounding women in tech are very important, but that doesn't come with a license to make shit up. Mechanical Turk could disappear tomorrow and SV would be just fine.
- smacktoward 12y agoIt's disingenuous to compare people scanning books, for instance, with construction workers. The work book scanners are doing is directly related to the Google Books product itself; without those people, there would be no books in Google Books. It's not tangentially connected at all.