On Other Blogs Today: Ladies and Taxes
2. Damn, sister. I'm just gonna quote this one at length. Take it away, Seattlish:
Let's all shed a sad, sad tear for the poor dudes of the tech world who can't get a date because the poor dudes who run the tech world fail to hire women.
You guys know what really sucks about the fact that Amazon’s workforce is 75% male? Hint: It’s not that it’s indicative of the fact that we discourage little girls from getting into careers in STEM. It’s also not that it’s symptomatic of a larger culture of dude-ness in tech. It’s not even that that means that women are still generally employed in field that pay less and are largely left out in the cold during times of “tech booms.”
It’s that it makes it so hard for all those men to date :((((((( according to this sad dude who finally has a reason to be sad about tech’s blindness to women.
Let's all shed a sad, sad tear for the poor dudes of the tech world who can't get a date because the poor dudes who run the tech world fail to hire women.
3. Oh, lord. The New Yorker reports that NYT executive editor Jill Abramson was reportedly fired for being too "pushy" (yup) and, specifically, complaining when she discovered that her male underlings made more than her.
"Publicly, [NYT CEO Mark] Thompson and Abramson denied that there was any tension between them, as Sulzberger today declared that there was no church-state—that is, business-editorial—conflict at the Times," the New Yorker's Ken Auletta writes, skeptically. "A politician who made such implausible claims might merit a front-page story in the Times. The two men and Abramson clearly did not get along."
She has been, naturally, replaced by a dude.
