A woman’s tech career was dismissed despite evident professional success

Evidence

Ariel Waldman when she got hired as the Community Manager at Pownce she didn’t really have a track record other than being a sex blogger, and now she is writing a book about social media and she is doing community management work for NASA. So Pownce was a failure, not because she failed but, if you look at her resume, it would appear that so far Ariel doesn’t really have a track record still. So she is running off of, I guess fumes and she is doing a great job but if I was an analyst … I would say, I don’t know how she got this job at NASA. She is a sex blogger who worked for a failed startup who is on Twitter. She has like 20,000 followers. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 706

Categorization

• DEFINE: Showcases how ‘track record’ functions as a gendered gatekeeping concept in tech credibility discourse.
• XREF: connects to: An employer regarded a worker’s unified online self as detrimantal to her career. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 628; Women’s tech accomplishments get credited to their male associates regardless of romantic reality — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 701; Tech women’s success is dismissed as appearance-driven rather than earned — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 707 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Tech women’s success is dismissed as appearance-driven rather than earned #corroborates (0.95) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 707
• Women’s tech careers were systematically credited to male mentors while men’s were not #corroborates (0.90) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 704
• Espousing meritocracy while reinforcing sexist talk perpetuates low women’s participation in tech #corroborates (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 693
• Woman faces life rather than matter, so tools and technology fail her #responds-to (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1742
• Women’s representation in computing professions has declined since the 1980s #complicates (0.70) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 710