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Chalk One Up for Ellen Pao: Court Rules Kleiner Perkins Can’t Make Her Arbitrate
Ms. Pao (kpcb.com) When VC firm Kleiner Perkins filed its response to partner Ellen Pao's gender discrimination suit (nearly a month ago now), included in the flurry of legal documents were requests to...
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Go Daddy Unsure How Not to Offend the Ladies
More like .NOPE. (Screencap) Oh Go Daddy, what are we going to do with you? The domain registration company is embarking on a campaign to rehabilitate its frat-tastic public image, and today, the New...
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Sexism in Gaming ‘Isn’t a Joke or a Meme,’ Says a Gaming Tournament Founder,...
(Photo: IGN) As a pretty avid Xbox aficianado and also a person with two X chromosomes, this Betabeat reporter was unsurprised to read in the New York Times today about the seriousness of sexism in...
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@Sweden Uses His Platform to Lambast Sexism in Gaming
(Photo: Twitter) The official Twitter account for the country of Sweden has tweeted relatively uneventfully following its Henry Blodget moment back in June, when a Swedish citizen named Sonja...
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Good Guy Greg Would Not Approve of Pressuring Girls Into Sex
Calling these guys cavemen is an insult to cavemen everywhere. There's an entire meme, Good Guy Greg, devoted to defining and modeling what makes someone a decent dude. It's consistently charming. He...
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Is That a Gadget in Your Pocket? Objectifying 25 Male Tech Writers
Gizmodo's Sam Biddle sluttin' it up at CES. (Photo: Gizmodo) News of the first annual Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day swept across the web this morning following an article penned by one of the...
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Scientists Try to Develop Software That Tells Jokes, End Up With Sexist...
(Photo: utopianist.com) Scientists at the University of Edinburgh set out to program a computer that could find connections between unlikely word pairs and generate witty one-liners. Instead, they...
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Business Insider’s Sexist CTO Has Resigned, But He’s Still Everything That’s...
Brogrammer ad (Photo: Twitter) No week is really a great week to be a woman in tech, but this week has been especially terrible--and ladies, it's only Tuesday. Hot on the heels of Techcrunch's Titstare...
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Male Gorilla and Probable Hacker News Commenter Sent to Therapy for His...
(Photo: Sagacom) Patrick is incredibly hairy, weighs 430 pounds and hates women. Patrick is not a Hacker News commenter, he is a gorilla who until recently resided at the Dallas Zoo. Now, according to...
View ArticleWoman Live-Tweets Alleged IBM Execs’ Highly Sexist Conversation
A freelance coder was eating lunch in downtown Toronto yesterday when she claimed she overheard some IBM executives casually discussing why they don't hire women. Like any sensible tech professional...
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