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Women and the Internet

From The New Yorker, Lizzie Widdicombe on the programmer’s price: The world is being rebuilt in code — now there’s an agency to help top programmers get superstar salaries. Tech is a man’s world: Tech companies may pride themselves on being meritocracies, but unconscious biases shape the way they hire and promote. From Newsweek, Nina Burleigh on what Silicon Valley thinks of women: The sexism in Silicon Valley is sordid, shocking and systemic; it’s going to take a revolution to bring it down — or a woman’s touch (and Alexia Tsotsis on what (some) Silicon Valley women think of Newsweek). No, Nate, brogrammers may not be macho, but that’s not all there is to it: Zeynep Tufekci on how French High Theory and Dr. Seuss can help explain Silicon Valley’s gender blindspots. Jodi Kantor on a brand new world in which men ruled: Instead of narrowing gender gaps, the technology industry created vast new ones for Stanford University’s pioneering class of 1994. Her task is to wean the White House off floppy disks: Megan J. Smith, an M.I.T.-trained mechanical engineer and former Google executive, is trying to bring her Silicon Valley sensibility to the Obama administration. Nicholas Carlson on what happened when Marissa Mayer tried to be Steve Jobs. Allison McCann on the Queen of Code: You probably don’t know the name Grace Hopper, but you should. Quinn Norton on women and the Internet (and part 2 and part 3 and part 4).