She showed us that Silicon Valley is deliberately ignoring women's voices. Let me tell you some of the mistakes LARGE companies have made because they do NOT listen to women.
Adobe's professional printing program will not allow artistic fonts. This is because men usually do not deal with the printer. I had to print my cards on my office printer, because I do not like corporate fonts.
Windows will not allow you to globally turn off auto formatting. For me, presentation is an important part of my document. Good thing there is still WordPerfect, which has a better thesaurus anyway.
Microsoft dropped its best product, which was a dictionary that pronounced the words for you. It was an excellent learning tool.
My favorite websites do NOT require me to remember a password in order to buy things. Yet somehow they still are not hacked. Male techies seem to think that all security problems can be solved by a more complex password. This is not a good option for those of us who can not even remember a phone number for sixty seconds.
IT IS GOOD BUSINESS TO INCLUDE WOMEN IN THE DISCUSSION.
* Ellen Pao lost her case against her old venture capital firm. Her firm is one of the one most welcoming to women, but she showed us that the welcome mat did not go as far as to let her into the boy's club.
It should be noted that the teacher in the famous monkey trial got convicted of teaching evolution. Sometimes a lost trial can do more to change things than winning a trial.
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