"Hot Tech Hotties" meant to address sexism in tech industry

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Not at all ironic that I found this article by following a link from Weird News.

The Internet has opened tech culture to ongoing discussions about the systemic sexism and harassment in the field. Women are paid less than half of what men make. Their careers are drastically shortened. They face abuse and death threats when they speak out.

In the wake of recent debates about the industry's gender issues, one fledgling mobile magazine decided that we could all use more women in tech... in their underwear.

Hot Tech Today was released March 17 on iTunes and Google Play stores, purporting to be a new “FUN!” alternative to the average run-of-the-mill startup magazines. You know, the ones without women dropping their thong underwear on the covers.
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The Facebook page is semi-regularly refreshed with new Hot Tech Hotties:



“These women are models,” argued Kelley. “They want to be models, this is the career they have chosen and hope to excel and earn a living doing what they do. We actually give them the avenue to do that. We pay them for the job they love doing and that's that. Erica Williams is really the only woman in tech within our very small organization. All of the other women in tech should be proud to have a woman owner of a tech company and really overlooking any sexism altogether.

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