Google employees are adding 'Lady' to their job titles to fight sexism

I like the response of the job titles. I think it's a cool way to draw attention to an issue in a subtle and playful way.

But something feels a little contrived about the hoopla around this.

In my experience with shareholder meetings you have a blend of sophisticated investors interested in the true financial performance of the company on the one side.

On the other it's sprinkled with tiny shareholders who literally have nothing else to do in the middle of the day and are looking for some excitement.

If you're a shareholder, eg you own one share of stock, you're allowed to attend and ask questions.

Since the media has not identified the shareholder (anywhere I can find) my assumption is that this is some grizzled wingnut small shareholder making a nonsensical statement that the media LOVED and grabbed onto to fit like a puzzle piece into a controversial narrative and drive clicks.

Not bad that it's highlighting the issue, but let's understand the context that the media leaves out - eg this is not an institutional investor!

First I've heard of this incident. It's incredible, the things people say. I don't understand how said anonymous investor made it this far without ever being admonished for speaking in that way.

Unless he knew what he was doing? That raises a number of other questions.

The USA Today article hints at another gender equality topic that came up in this meeting, with poor results: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/08/google-al...

"Minutes after Alphabet shareholders rejected a proposal to disclose more information about gender pay equity at Google, a shareholder stepped forward to ask whether Alphabet's stock price was under- or over-valued by Wall Street."

That could end up being fun inside google.

"Prithee Lady Developer, whilst thou gander at user story 493 and comment on it before the morrow?"

Does this article provide anything additional to the BI article to which it links?

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-holding-lady-day-2016-...

Do employees actually use the word "Googley"? Is this seen in a positive light?