GitHub Apologizes for Handling of Harassment Claim That Led to President's Exit
We’re not programmers, so we’d barely heard the name GitHub before this month–yet the company just provided an interesting example of a tech company responding to self-created controversy.
You probably know the story, but…
A female engineer resigned from the company and spoke to TechCrunch in March, describing a culture of sexism and intimidation and specifically accusing the company’s co-founder/president and his wife of behaving inappropriately.
The news got even more attention thanks to a string of recent reports about the poor state of gender equality in the tech industry.
While
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