"Ellen Pao Might Not Win, and That’s OK"

"The stakes feel both very high—for the minority of women working in technology who are paid less and overlooked more—and very low—for everyone involved is, by any measure, paid very, very well.

But as the details have been revealed over several weeks of testimony, it’s become clear that Ellen Pao’s case is not the one on which women in tech should hang all their hope. There may never be one. Ideally, there will be many.

Few industries appear as openly confused about its own discrimination as tech, where the delusion of a meritocracy still survives despite all evidence to the contrary. Homogeneity is baked in to the Silicon Valley workplace and business model, with “culture fit” and “pattern-matching” guiding personnel and investment decisions from start to finish, consistently and often explicitly privileging white men over everyone else."

http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/ellen-pao-might-not-win-and-thats-ok

I'm loving this "openly confused with their own discrimination" - also academic research. 

I've gotten so skeptical of anything where cultural fit is centralized; it limits severely the options for people who are not part of the dominant culture. 

Credit to JD