Facebook Announces New Product Leads. None Of Them Are Women.

4:30 pm, December 8th | by Hillary Reinsberg

There’s some news from the West Coast today: Facebook has announced it’s “reorganized” its technical teams, with five new product leads who will report directly to Mark Zuckerberg. Guess what? They’re all dudes!

Here’s the announcement from Facebook, via All Things D:

“We can confirm that in order to streamline the product development process, we have reorganized our technical teams into product groups that report into Mark. These groups will be lead by Bret Taylor, Chris Cox, Greg Badros, Mike Schroepfer and Sam Lessin.”

Yes, ladies, that’s Bret, Chris, Greg, Mike and Sam.

It’s not much of a surprise to hear that a Silicon Valley tech giant has appointed all male executives. But at Facebook, it is something of a surprise, given COO Sheryl Sandberg’s heavy emphasis on cultivating more female leaders at the company. To be clear, these guys are extremely qualified and all have been key to Facebook’s growth. But we imagine Sandberg is none too thrilled with the estrogen imbalance in the announcement.

TobDee

You people really can’t look at as whether they’re women or not, but the qualifications they meet. Your mindset is sexist.
ZenPoseur

It’s called a pattern, Dudebro. When all of these jobs seem to go to men despite the huge numbers of highly qualified women working in the valley, we can infer that one of the “qualifications” is the presence of a penis.
http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

“There’s some news from the West Coast today: Facebook has announced it’s ‘reorganized’ its technical teams, with five new product leads who will
report directly to Mark Zuckerberg. Guess what? They’re all dudes!”

Oh dear! And I bet they’re all white, too! C’mon, we gotta cover all the self-victimizations here.
http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

Or… the qualification is being a hard worker who interested in diversity of opinion and skills rather than a self-victimizer who’s interested in shallow things like diversity of characteristics.
ZenPoseur

You know, Tony, you’re starting to grow on me. You remind me of my favorite uncle, who also believes women are inferior from birth. And that fluoride is a Jewish plot to control the world.
ZenPoseur

By the way, Tony Westover, is that your real name?

Because I’m sitting here, thinking about people who might Google your name in the future. Employers. Love interests. Children. I’m thinking of what they’re going to see here. The things you wrote. The bilious hate. The neanderthal opinions. The sheer arrogance and smug entitlement.

And it makes me smile.

Is that petty of me? Yes. Yes, I think it is. But this is to be expected. I’m merely a woman.
Anonymous

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http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve said on here. Why would I be, it’s all been true. That’s why you haven’t been able to refute a single thing I’ve said.

But I can see why you’re using a fake name since you wouldn’t want anyone to trace your pitiful sexist comments back to you.
http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

That speaks volumes about you.
ZenPoseur

You’re going to have to explain in more detail why you think I’m sexist, Tony Westover. I don’t get it.
ZenPoseur

It’s funny that you’d say that, Tony Westover, since I was describing my uncle’s beliefs — not mine. What do you imagine it says about me?

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