I published my piece in September of 2013, and in early December, Twitter finally added its first woman director, Marjorie Scardino, the former CEO of the Pearson PLC. Getting to inclusivity was a painfully slow process, always hindered by the excuse that there was a “pipeline problem” and that the always male leaders needed to maintain “standards” of quality. The problem I had was that (a) the tech leaders themselves installed that pipeline; and (b) the word “standards” was never uttered when it came to those all-male operations that were spewing losses and hurtling toward ignominy.
