However a lot of them encountered difficulties steering getting old tech firms. Of these girls, solely Ms. Catz, Ms. Hood and Ms. Porat stay of their roles.
“The snail’s tempo of progress for girls leaders in Silicon Valley is worse than disappointing,” mentioned Nicole Wong, a deputy chief expertise officer for the Obama administration and a former Twitter govt. “It makes the commitments that tech leaders made round racial and gender range in 2014 look performative.”
In 2017, tales of sexual harassment by highly effective males in Silicon Valley grew to become a part of the #MeToo motion. That 12 months, a bunch of feminine traders created All Elevate.
In 2018, California handed a legislation requiring publicly traded firms to have no less than one feminine board director, resulting in scores of girls becoming a member of company boards. (A California decide struck down the legislation final month; the state has mentioned it is going to enchantment the ruling.) One other new legislation, handed final 12 months, the Silenced No Extra Act, offers authorized safety for individuals who communicate publicly about discrimination or harassment they skilled at work.
Girls in tech have continued talking out about unfair remedy. In 2020, Ms. Brougher reached a $22.5 million settlement with Pinterest for discrimination and retaliation. A discrimination lawsuit by Emily Kramer, a former chief advertising and marketing officer on the monetary start-up Carta, is working its means by means of the courts.
There have been some indicators of progress. Over the previous 5 years, Katrina Lake of Sew Repair, Julie Wainwright of The RealReal, Jennifer Hyman of Hire the Runway and Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble took the businesses they based public. And following in Ms. Sandberg’s footsteps, feminine chief working officers at the moment are extra frequent in tech. They embody Ms. Choi at Coinbase, Gwynne Shotwell at SpaceX and Jen Wong at Reddit.
At Meta, Ms. Sandberg employed and promoted girls, resembling Marne Levine, the chief enterprise officer, and Lori Goler, the pinnacle of human sources and hiring. The proportion of girls in Meta’s administration with titles of director or greater elevated to 35 p.c in 2021, from 30 p.c in 2018, in accordance with the corporate’s information.
Meta additionally developed girls who now lead different tech firms, together with Ms. Simo, who oversaw the principle Fb app earlier than turning into Instacart’s chief govt final 12 months.
Supply: NY Times