Women’s tech accomplishments were routinely attributed to sexual relationships with men

Evidence

From Thomas’s point of view, Culver truly was “sleeping her way to the top,” and it was his journalistic duty to point this out so that other women wouldn’t follow the same path. This story was widely accepted; one informant, a self-professed feminist woman, said snidely, “Unfortunately for Leah, it’s not that she’s sleeping.” — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 703

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the gendered attribution pattern that grounds the chapter’s broader argument about women in tech.
• SHARE: The informant’s snide quip about Culver is striking enough to share with someone doing gender/media studies.
• XREF: connects to: The same professional relationship is labeled networking for men but sexualized for women — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 699; Women’s tech accomplishments get credited to their male associates regardless of romantic reality — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 701; Women’s tech careers were systematically credited to male mentors while men’s were not — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 704 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Women face extra barriers to mentorship, and mixed-gender professional relationships get sexualized #corroborates (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 698
• Espousing meritocracy while reinforcing sexist talk perpetuates low women’s participation in tech #expands (0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 693
• Complementarian teachers blamed women for men’s sexual behavior #corroborates (0.72)