When hired by startups, younger women find themselves severely underrepresented. Ellen Ullman said that women “in her growing company of 24 people there were four women, which she “considered to be a good ratio” (Ullman2013). And, as always, our ranks thin at the deeper technical levels. Get installed in marketing and customer service, writing scripts for web pages. Yet coding, peering into algorithmic depths, getting close to the machine, is the driver of technology; and technology, in turn, is driving fundamental changes in personal, social and political lives. The question that remains now is how we (women) react to this great prejudice against women. The rule of law and the centenary of social activism are crucial. No matter how strong the social structure, there is always the slap moment where you are alone with the anti-woman prejudice; the joke, the leering, the contempt, the invisibility, the inescapable fact that the moment you walk through the door you are seen as inferior, regardless of your credentials. Ellen Ullman says in her article “Have no guidance for women who want to climb the ranks to technical management” (Ullman 2013). Ullman led a peripatetic life, moving forward
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