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All the Women in This Photo of “Tech Titans” Were Photoshopped In

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"“When we realized we didn't have a shot where all attendees were represented, we added in photos of two female CEOs taken during the weekend,” a spokesperson wrote to BuzzFeed News. “The photos were shared and approved with all the participants including the two women, Lynn Jurich and Ruzwana Bashir, before posting them on Instagram and they also shared the group photo on their own Instagram handles.”

The article also notes that other attendees not included in the photo declined to be photoshopped in. However, due to the gender ratio, the twittersphere were calling it a diversity shooping. Overall the news is fairly neutral and doesn't make judgements, and in fact says it makes no sense for a lifestyle magazine to be making diversity photoshops.

> Overall the news is fairly neutral and doesn't make judgements, and in fact says it makes no sense for a lifestyle magazine to be making diversity photoshops.

I think it's too easy to say it "makes no sense" when you have no skin in the game. If this HN post stays active for a while, it's likely that there will be a lot of "there is no excuse" and "shoulda just had more women lol"; which is probably why they tried shooping this to begin with. People would probably have criticized the image either way, even if this particular attempt to quell that is... clumsy.

This is the sort of thing I would have dismissed as too over-the-top if it had happened in an episode of Mike Judge's TV series about Silicon Valley.[a]

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)

According to the article, the women actually were along on the trip, they just were not in the initial group photo.

And it can be easily inferred that they were asked if it was OK to be put in the photo, and agreed.

That's no excuse.

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