The figures coming out of Silicon Valley are dreadful. Only 10% of the technology workforce at Twitter is female, and the likes of Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Apple really aren’t much better. Lets remember that these are not old, institutionalised employers – the majority of them are less than 15 years old, and they’re coming out of the very liberal Silicon Valley. And when you consider that the majority of the products that these companies are making have a user base of around 50% when, there is absolutely no excusing these figures.
Another fact that is relatively amusing travesty is this…