Nothing to do with yahoo. Mayer failing makes hn happy.
Wonder why?
Wonder why?
Remember how the media celebrated her appointment, focussing on her gender, as if the silver bullet of "gender diversity" will resolve the many problems we have in tech management. The media did this before she'd demonstrated any leadership or success.
For some who hold more interest in identity politics than technology, the mere appointment of a female CEO was success enough.
Yet, ironically, it is this politically-fueled attention to her gender that now resonates as we observe her failure. Let's hope it doesn't create damaging prejudices against other female leaders. If it does, I hope the real culprits are as obvious to other readers as they are to me.
We need to rein in the social justice warriors and stop tech being used as a vehicle for gender identity politics and virtue-signalling.
In my mind, to think of the corresponding female CEO to Steve Jobs, Holmes immediately comes to my mind, who leads a company with smoke and mirrors...
Yahoo is one of the oldest and most important web companies around. It's always going to be newsworthy. And people are a bit critical of Mayer because she promised a lot and really hasn't delivered anything.
It also pre-dates the era of gender hysteria and other assorted identity politics brought to tech by social justice warriors.
Happier times.
Sorry but this pretty much only exists in the minds of a niche group of disaffected, geeky men. The rest of the world has found more constructive ways to deal with the opposite sex and would find the idea we are living in an "era" of it frankly bizarre.
This isn't about eras of men or women. It's nothing to do with how men and women interact. My point was about eras of identity politics around gender.
But you're right maybe in the last 20+ years of being in IT I am yet to experience these mythical social justice warriors trying to infiltrate and corrupt the industry. Will definitely keep an eye out for them.