<story><title>What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/06/what-silicon-valley-thinks-women-302821.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; It wouldn&amp;#x27;t be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree that parts of the tech world are really horrible, and I think we need to be doing everything we can to make women feel more welcome in our industry (not just for them, but for us), but isn&amp;#x27;t it at least a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; exaggeration to say that Silicon Valley is the main &amp;quot;trench of the global gender war&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d think we&amp;#x27;d be ranked after at least a couple of these:&lt;p&gt;* The construction industry&lt;p&gt;* The Bible Belt&lt;p&gt;* The restaurant industry&lt;p&gt;* West Africa&lt;p&gt;* The movie industry&lt;p&gt;* The Vatican&lt;p&gt;* The sportswriting industry&lt;p&gt;* The people who make Superbowl ads&lt;p&gt;* Japan&lt;p&gt;* The adult entertainment industry&lt;p&gt;* The Middle East&lt;p&gt;* Wall Street&lt;p&gt;* Nepal&lt;p&gt;* The upper echelons of American politics</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>OK. Maybe I don&amp;#x27;t get this, but doesn&amp;#x27;t framing this as a &amp;quot;war&amp;quot; make the situation even worse? Isn&amp;#x27;t viewing the opposite gender as &amp;quot;enemy combatants&amp;quot; a really terrible thing to do?&lt;p&gt;I would think that women face enough challenges in their workplace without being viewed by their coworkers as being hostile and out for their livelihoods.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I have this all wrong, but this seems that &amp;quot;news&amp;quot; pieces like this do not help anybody but the media (though perhaps it makes those on either side of the gender divide who already view the others as enemy combatants feel validated).</text></comment>
<story><title>What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/06/what-silicon-valley-thinks-women-302821.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; It wouldn&amp;#x27;t be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree that parts of the tech world are really horrible, and I think we need to be doing everything we can to make women feel more welcome in our industry (not just for them, but for us), but isn&amp;#x27;t it at least a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; exaggeration to say that Silicon Valley is the main &amp;quot;trench of the global gender war&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d think we&amp;#x27;d be ranked after at least a couple of these:&lt;p&gt;* The construction industry&lt;p&gt;* The Bible Belt&lt;p&gt;* The restaurant industry&lt;p&gt;* West Africa&lt;p&gt;* The movie industry&lt;p&gt;* The Vatican&lt;p&gt;* The sportswriting industry&lt;p&gt;* The people who make Superbowl ads&lt;p&gt;* Japan&lt;p&gt;* The adult entertainment industry&lt;p&gt;* The Middle East&lt;p&gt;* Wall Street&lt;p&gt;* Nepal&lt;p&gt;* The upper echelons of American politics</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>The bible belt isn&amp;#x27;t exactly eating the world.&lt;p&gt;We live in a society where more people now aspire to be tech CEOs than pro athletes or rock stars, and tech is one of the main centers of power both politically and economically.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s easy to dismiss the article because there are a few mischaracterizations and exaggerations. But you need to remember that most people get their information about the tech world from second hand sources, and SV is largely opaque and closed off to the general public.&lt;p&gt;If you actually read it for what it is rather than just judging the author based on her knowledge of obscure inside-baseball tech scandals then I think there are some valuable points.</text></comment>