By exploiting women, British companies gained all the benefits of powerful mainframes with little labor overhead — and no long-term commitment to …
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Discrimination wrecks tech. Let's not repeat history.
All through the history of computing we see elisions that cleave out failure and discrimination in order to assure us that we are living in the best of all possible high-tech worlds where meritocracy guides technological progress. But we are not, and have never been, living in the best of all possible high-tech worlds. The stories of attempts to “make it” — and make positive change — in tech are ever more important to understanding technology’s role in our societies’ futures.
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Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley This all raises a central question: Where are the women? Actually, they were initially at the forefront of the industry, back when technologist jobs were considered menial, akin to typists. But as the industry became …
Lena Söderberg started out as just another Playboy centerfold. The 21-year-old Swedish model left her native Stockholm for Chicago because, as she …
A new name or deeper voice doesn’t address the reason these AIs were created in the first place. The smart assistants sold by big tech companies have a sexism problem. Their names and voices are default female, their answers to questions have sometimes excluded information that’s relevant to women, …
Decades after women were pushed out of programming, Amazon’s AI recruiting technology carried on the industry’s legacy of bias A recent report revealed Amazon’s AI recruiting technology developed a bias against women because it was trained predominantly on men’s résumés. Although Amazon shut the …
If the incredible rise of computing is one of the biggest stories of the twentieth century, then the failure of the nation that invented the …
The agreement impacts more than 5,500 current employees and past job applicants. Pay discrimination? In Silicon Valley? We're shocked. Google will be forced to cough up roughly $3.8 million to settle allegations of pay and hiring discrimination, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday. At issue …
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work. 点击这里阅读中文版本 | Read this article in Chinese. One weekday morning in 2007, Bethanye Blount came into work early to interview a job …
