2-17 Expert Witness: Gossip
Raquel and Ferrone leave the building, Adios, girl bosses. Film Noir takes a dive and Liner Notes live another day.
ADIOS, CHICAS
The last woman CEO has left the building. The media conglomerate is now marked “safe” — from the female gaze.
What’s really going on? Here’s the lede of a story which is far more interesting at the bottom than the top.
YouTube chief exec Susan Wojcicki will step down after nearly a decade at the helm of the Google-owned video site, leaving all of the major social media and entertainment platforms in the management of men.
You might think such is the navel-gazing concern of the billionaire C-suite. Dig down a few graphs:
The recent job cuts in the tech sector has jeopardized the progress many companies made in diversifying their workforces during the pandemic . . .
Attrition rates for people who work promoting diversity have outpaced other [furloughs] at 600+ U.S. companies who laid off workers since late 2020…