{
  "id": 8894780,
  "title": "Women Still Face Too Much Bullshit—in Silicon Valley and Beyond",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/women-still-face-too-much-bullshit-in-silicon-valley-and-beyond",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-21T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired",
    "slug": "wired",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/wired-women-editors-letter/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Over two decades of working in Silicon Valley and beyond, <SOURCE>Katie</SOURCE> realized that she had a problem with some men. Despite surrounded by brilliant, kind, and fantastic men, she felt that some men were behaving sexist and displaying deeply ingrained gender dynamics. Her experience began at WIRED, a publication that once celebrated innovators and visionaries. However, the magazine was enthusiastic about technology and the geniuses defining the future, but it failed to publish enough covers featuring women.\n\nDuring her first stint at WIRED, <SOURCE>she</SOURCE> observed that there was no female editor. Moreover, she remembers a time when a male editor commented on her attire, asking \"where'd the legs go?\" when she wore pants instead of a skirt to the office. This experience was just a preview of the sexism she faced in her career.\n\nThroughout her 17-year career, <SOURCE>she</SOURCE> encountered numerous instances of sexism. Her male boss suggested that she seemed \"too cold\" to be a parent, joked about her pregnancy, paid her less than her male predecessor, and even suggested that she might \"seppuku\" herself following an editor's letter she wrote. The New York Times even published a story about her appointment as WIRED's global editorial director but had to correct it, stating that she was not the first woman to run the magazine.\n\nThese experiences had consequences on <SOURCE>her</SOURCE> mental health. She often wondered if she had been granted certain jobs or opportunities for less-than-professional reasons. She also wondered if she got them to fulfill some kind of quota. In an attempt to command respect at work, she felt the need to behave like a stereotypical male, which made her feel uncomfortable.\n\n<SENTENCE>While women do wield power in Silicon Valley, far too many still serve at the pleasure of a man above them.</SENTENCE> With a convicted sex predator in the White House and tech industry executives virtually all being men, <SOURCE>it</SOURCE> seems like they want to erase women altogether. The world deserves better heroes, women deserve better colleagues, and <SOURCE>her</SOURCE> daughter deserves to be less furious when she's 40.",
  "summary": "WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.",
  "key_points": [
    "Katie experienced sexism in Silicon Valley despite surrounded by brilliant, kind men.",
    "WIRED magazine failed to publish enough covers featuring women during her first stint."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}