Silicon Valley has been considered at the national and international level as the ideal place to work, but this interview shows that behind that economic emporium with astronomical salaries there is a hostile environment and systematic discrimination against women.
Emily Chang, the author of the book “Brotopia”, which was launched the previous week, has generated a controversy for everything her research in the technology industry has unveiled. Chang interviewed several women who work in Silicon Valley and found that discrimination against them occurs not only at the salary level, but because they are inferior in number compared to men, they are pressured to participate in the “social culture” of the industry that includes, among other things, sex parties and invitations to strip clubs and bondage clubs in the middle of the day.
This situation, which is unacceptable from any point of view, again highlights the macho paradigm that prevails in most economic industries in which women are not valued for their talent and abilities but continue to be seen as sexual objects.
The author concludes with a very interesting reflection. She says: “Silicon Valley is controlling what we see, what we read, how we shop, how we communicate, how we relate to each other. This is not just tech’s problem. This is society’s problem. This is the industry that is having a greater influence on humanity than perhaps any other. And the same industry that changed the world can change this behavior”. What do you think?
Monica Calderón