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Silicon Valley leans out - Elsacat - Jul 22 2025
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/22/social-media-female-leaders
https://archive.ph/qL44T
Quote:There are no female CEOs at social media and messaging companies on the Fortune 500 list.
Between the lines: Female executives of social media and messaging apps mostly hold leadership positions in finance, communications, human resources, legal and marketing. There are few women in leading revenue roles at these companies.
I'm not surprised Linda Yaccarino left X as quickly as she did. Even if women are CEOs and elsewhere at the CxO level, investors and boards of directors are probably still mostly male and entrenched in the tech boys' club.
RE: Silicon Valley leans out - Clover - Jul 22 2025
Yeah, that's kind of the problem with liberal feminism and an aspect where faults show. Women getting slivers of "power" in an inherently unjust system is not a net win for women as a class, and even these women who get these slivers of "power" end up treated like shit by misogynists and their toys (Elon's Grok AI sexually harassing Linda on X).
Continually trying to climb up a hierarchy where one can never reach the top (boys' clubs, corporate patriarchy, puts a stop to that), where instead the goal is to just get shit on less, is still getting shit on. More female CEOs won't fix this. I remember collecting data on the sex of CEOs in the makeup industry — I can't recall the data but a decent amount were female, like maybe 40%? (I want to go dig up that spreadsheet now.) Would women making up the majority of makeup company CEOs make the misogyny of the beauty industry go away? Doubt.