Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t
Articles like this really make me aware that men and women like Ellen Pao and her former partners live in a separate parallel world: three degrees, $10 million golden parachutes, private jet flights to ski resorts, affairs with a creepy married co-worker in Germany, machismo-driven muscling for VC connections, bisexual finance wizards who kickstart an Ivy-League LGBT program, dominance games over which chair an exec sits in, PR firms hired to smear uppity former partners... it&#x27;s like a movie.<p>I worry that the media looks at cases like this as typical of the experience of women in tech, and downplays the impact of obvious and unobjectionable steps like &quot;recruit junior devs from the ranks of biology grads&quot; and &quot;give expectant mothers maternity leave&quot; because systemic changes aren&#x27;t as interesting as diversity training or a VC partner&#x27;s lawsuit.