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What the Google gender 'manifesto' really says about Silicon Valley

  • Written by Marie Hicks, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageOh the terrible irony.Photo by Mar Hicks

Five years ago, Silicon Valley was rocked by a wave of “brogrammer” bad behavior, when overfunded, highly entitled, mostly white and male startup founders did things that were juvenile, out of line and just plain stupid. Most of these activities – such as putting pornography into PowerPoint...

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