An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the
high-tech industry Why is being a computer "geek" still perceived
to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly
outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a
growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called
attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the
tech world. Much has been written about the industry's failure to
adequately address gender and racial inequalities, yet rarely have
we gotten an intimate look inside these companies. In Geek Girls,
France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist
that "lifts the Silicon veil" to provide firsthand accounts of
inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. This work draws
on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology
workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who
are currently employed at tech firms such as Apple, Facebook,
Google, and Twitter, and at various start-ups in the San Francisco
Bay area. Geek Girls captures what it is like to work as a
technically skilled woman in Silicon Valley. With a sharp eye for
detail and compelling testimonials from industry insiders, Twine
shows how the technology industry remains rigged against women, and
especially Black, Latinx, and Native American women from working
class backgrounds. From recruitment and hiring practices that give
priority to those with family, friends, and classmates employed in
the industry, to social and educational segregation, to academic
prestige hierarchies, Twine reveals how women are blocked from
entering this industry. Women who do not belong to the dominant
ethnic groups in the industry are denied employment opportunities,
and even actively pushed out, despite their technical skills and
qualifications. While the technology firms strongly embrace the
rhetoric of diversity and oppose discrimination in the workplace,
Twine argues that closed social networks and routine hiring
practices described by employees reinforce the status quo and
reproduce inequality. The myth of meritocracy and gender
stereotypes operate in tandem to produce a culture where the use of
race-, color-, and power-evasive language makes it difficult for
individuals to name the micro-aggressions and forms of
discrimination that they experience. Twine offers concrete insights
into how the technology industry can address ongoing racial and
gender disparities, create more transparency and empower women from
underrepresented groups, who continued to be denied opportunities.
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