Queues: Silicon Valley and its men’s room problem
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Dan Ackerman, editor of tech website CNET, posted a picture from the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco showing a line of men waiting for the lavs.
This sight is becoming a familiar trope at tech shows. Search the net and you’ll find the fellas lining up at 2013 Consumer Electronics show, Google I/O, South by Southwest and lots more beside. Funny as it is, it also shines an unflattering light on one facet of the tech world: its glaring lack of women.
In fact the photo genre has spawned a Twitter account, @WomenInLine, which aims to promote “women in tech so we can achieve the ultimate goal of having to wait in line at a software conference ladies’ room”. Noble aim, but at the moment a fairly distant dream.
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