Gender inequality is structurally embedded in Silicon Valley’s self-image and status system

Evidence

Ultimately improving this problem will be very difficult, because the issue of gender is intimately woven into Silicon Valley’s view of itself and its highest-status members. It even manifests itself in seemingly unrelated issues, like the ideal of authentic content. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 648

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later literature on how ostensibly neutral tech ideals encode gendered norms. — connects to: Openness rhetoric in open-source culture masks gender-exclusionary status hierarchies — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 173; Work-life balance discourse in tech masks a gendered pressure to choose work — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 184; Silicon Valley gossip media enforced gendered, conservative moral codes on tech celebrities — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 367 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Silicon Valley’s self-image was male-centered from the mid-1980s onward #expands (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 685
• Espousing meritocracy while reinforcing sexist talk perpetuates low women’s participation in tech #corroborates (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 693