I'd like to see a woman hired as CEO for whom the principle talking point isn't that she's female.
I don't fucking care.
Be competent. Be a decent person.
Meg Whitman is a horrible person from everything I've seen. She's managed not to kill what's left with HP after Carly Fiorina drove it into the ground.
I meant to search for "most notable (female|woman) tech ceo", but left out the gender qualification.
A slideshow item I refuse to link on principle lists Alibaba, HP, Oracle (co-CEO), IBM, Xerox, Yahoo, YouTube, and ... um, one other I've now forgotten, fuck the slideshow very much. Oh, AMD. None of which are startups.
Women hold 23 CEO positions (4.3%) of the S&P 500, four of which I've already mentioned:
I think we'd all love to see the day when a woman reaching the position of Fortune 500 isn't news. As much as we might argue how much of Mayer's meteoric rise was because of her being a woman, I think it's outweighed by the fact that when she fucks up, she has to bear the burden of being the latest face of female inferiority.
I don't fucking care.
Be competent. Be a decent person.
Meg Whitman is a horrible person from everything I've seen. She's managed not to kill what's left with HP after Carly Fiorina drove it into the ground.
I meant to search for "most notable (female|woman) tech ceo", but left out the gender qualification.
A top 10 list fails to include any women:
http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/top-tech-ceos/#WNfESM0rbqqN
A list of 13 likewise:
http://www.businessinsider.com/13-most-popular-tech-company-...
A slideshow item I refuse to link on principle lists Alibaba, HP, Oracle (co-CEO), IBM, Xerox, Yahoo, YouTube, and ... um, one other I've now forgotten, fuck the slideshow very much. Oh, AMD. None of which are startups.
Women hold 23 CEO positions (4.3%) of the S&P 500, four of which I've already mentioned:
http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-ceos-sp-500
http://www.businessinsider.com/13-most-popular-tech-company-...