June 20th, 2013
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It’s not just the brogrammers. Silicon Valley’s gender imbalance starts at the top. Data collected by Catherine Bracey, who used to run the Obama campaign’s San Francisco tech office, shows that 89% of the executive teams at companies that got seed funding in the first half of 2010 were all male.

And America’s tech hub isn’t doing much better when it comes to race: The dudely founders of these companies were 82% white. Fewer than 1% were black or Hispanic.

Reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
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    wowwww,, and I thought it was just older Black Programmers who weren’t getting work. now I realize I am not alone. oh...
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    Not shocked.
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    I know this help-you-contact-Congress tech startup that was founded by two women, and the tech team is two women. The...
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    Yeah, there’s a reason I take such pleasure in deliberately emasculating and humiliating brogrammers. The culture is...
  10. mcchris said: It’s “Bracy”!
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