Sunday, November 15, 2015
Women in tech
This article transitions from passive aggressive to outright aggressive from beginning to end. The opening sentence, "It is equal parts hilarious and depressing that Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was called out for repeatedly interrupting Megan Smith, chief technology officer for the United States, while trying to talk about diversity and women in tech" comes across almost mockingly. The final two sentences, "if men in male-dominated fields like tech (and politics and venture capital and journalism and and and…) are serious about diversity and women’s leadership, then they need to STFU more often. Literally. The problem will not be solved by women leaning in. Instead, men need to lean back. Hard." are downright harsh and aggressive. The author's tone makes me feel like she is bias and doesn't understand or bother to look into the male side of the argument. The title, "Lean back, Eric Schmidt! How interrupting men & unconscious bias are killing women’s careers" also seems overzealous. Although the article provides factual evidence that men interrupt women far more often than they interrupt men or women interrupt men, it gives no evidence that this is killing women's careers. The article also asks for men to "debug" or stop interrupting women. In addition perhaps there should be a call to action for women to stand up against being interrupting or exploit and expose the problem.
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I agree with your blog and that people are simply overreacting to something that shouldn't be this crazy. The fact that they think the solution is to "stop talking" and "lean back" is ridiculous and simply wouldn't solve anything it would just stop progress and the continuation of good ideas that could be vital to our society.
ReplyDeleteI agree, while supplying us with statistics such as the one concerning the interruption of women by men, the writer failed to tie that statistic back to the original point in any way. This piece would have been stronger had the writer tied the statistics they presented back to their argument to show us how they felt that these things were destroying women's careers.
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