Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Trade Name, Me Too Movement, Neuroticism

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Week 10: gender gap (tuesday, march 20, 2018) Political economy suffers from (cid:498)dead white dude(cid:499) syndrome. Has neglected issues such as (cid:494)double shift(cid:495) of women(cid:495)s waged work, (cid:494)glass ceilings(cid:495) Platform capitalism, aka big tech, displays these issues and gender norms and stereotypes. % of women working in computer science-related professions has dropped from. 35% to 25% in the last 15 years. Women hold only 11 percent of executive positions at silicon valley companies. In the high tech industry, the quit rate is more than twice as high for women (41%) than it is for men (17 %) For women in the tech industry under age 25, earnings on average are 29 percent less than male counterparts. Women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company 63 percent of the time. (cid:498)brogrammers(cid:499): Hiring in high-tech companies tends to broad on to social aspects of the company; tend to hire people like themselves.

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