How sexist undercurrents, from a widely-used Playboy image to personality tests favoring men, turned Silicon Valley into a brotopia despite early women pioneers
Lena Söderberg started out as just another Playboy centerfold. The 21-year-old Swedish model left her native Stockholm … Tweets: @triketora and @mims Tweets: Tracy Chou / @triketora : the most iconic test image in computer vision is a crop of a nude playboy centerfold. what sexism? https://www.bloomberg.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : “There's little evidence to suggest antisocial people are more adept at math or computers... there's a wealth of evidence to suggest that if you set out to hire antisocial nerds, you'll wind up hiring a lot more men than women.” (@emilychangtv) http://www.bloomberg.com/...