![]() ![]() Twittersphere, and several tech conferences wereĮmbroiled in debates about sexual harassment or Low rates of funding were making the rounds of the It drew attention to bias in computing fields onceĪgain, particularly in Silicon Valley startup culture.Īround the same time, Ellen Pao was filing a gender discrimination lawsuit against her Silicon Valley ventureĬapital firm.3 Statistics about women entrepreneurs’ Of computing, but instead it seemed to rehash the The obnoxious affect of the brogrammer, rape jokesĪnd all, was designed to provoke a new understanding Women’s flagging participation since the 1990s? ![]() Threat to an industry that has famously tried to increase Was this new breed of fratty, chauvinist programmer a Latest incarnation of nerd culture.2 Was it a goof, aĬheeky effort by a group often derided as uncool to reclaim social prestige through masculine posturing? Or Sound an alarm about the state of the US high tech industry, but some questioned how seriously to take this ‘‘‘Gangbang Interviews’ and ‘Bikini Shots’: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem.’’1 The piece was meant to Scrutiny kicked off by a Mother Jones article called National consciousness thanks to a frenzy of media In April 2012, the term brogrammer became part of the ![]()
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