SAN JOSE, Calif. — A female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming conference, fueling an already vigorous debate about gender equality and culture in Silicon Valley.
Adria Richards wrote on her blog, butyouareagirl.com, that she was seated in a ballroom at the Santa Clara conference Sunday when the men behind her started talking about “big dongles.”
A dongle is a device that plugs into a computer, but Richards tweeted that the men made the comment in a sexual way.
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6 comments:
My wife said I should get one of them, and she'd teach me how to use it. I guess I do spend a lot more time on the computer these days.
Get over it ladies.It's a mans world.
Maybe she should learn to mind her own business and stop eavesdropping.
12:52,really??? Do you have a daughter, sister,mother that you say the same thing too? You are an absolute disgrace!!
According to my mother I was already a disgrace long before you declared it,but thanks anyway.
Get over it everyone this a idiots' world
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