by the Associated Press
Silicon Valley companies portray themselves as inventors of the future, but they’re afflicted by a longstanding problem. From board rooms to “brogrammers,” men still dominate many corners of the tech industry, where the pantheon of famous founders — from Hewlett and Packard to Jobs to Zuckerberg — is still largely a boys’ bastion. The gender-imbalance issue came to the forefront again recently when a partner at the country’s most prominent venture capital firm filed a sexual harassment lawsuit alleging that a former colleague retaliated against her for years after she cut off a brief relationship with him. The firm, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, has denied the allegations. Whatever the merits of the claim, the suit again has put a spotlight on the tech industry’s gender gap.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47666634/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
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