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3. I just read some of the media coverage

Reply to Gormy Cuss (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 3, 2015, 01:01 PM

Apr 2015

She wasn't the "perfect" person for the media, I didn't think she'd prevail either. It will take a lot more cases to really build the picture of SV's way of using workplace culture as a reason to keep things male and white, unfortunately.

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Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove [View all] Starry Messenger Mar 2015 OP

K&R! marym625 Mar 2015 #1

Pao didn't fit the "culture" -- and culture is used as an excuse for a lot of discrimination. Gormy Cuss Apr 2015 #2

I just read some of the media coverage Starry Messenger Apr 2015 #3

I knew it was over when I read this: boston bean Apr 2015 #4

That's actually a much better article than local media coverage. Starry Messenger Apr 2015 #5