While women are being beaten, beheaded, and raped in the Middle East to complete silence from feminist groups, we do, on the brighter side, have yet another article about the woes of the ladies of Silicon Valley.  The LA Times has written some very compelling anecdotes from women who are leaving the tech world because they are frustrated by sexism!

"There are a lot of things that piled up over the years," Garann Means said. "I didn't know how to move forward. There was a lot I had to put up with in the culture of tech. It just didn't seem worth it."

This is solely a women's issue that Garann Means is experiencing.  Men don't experience this.  Not only that, but we have a helpful study on the subject, from no less than Harvard University!

A Harvard Business Review study from 2008 found that as many as 50% of women working in science, engineering and technology will, over time, leave because of hostile work environments.

That's good scholarly work!  I'm glad Harvard didn't also examine how many men left because of frustrating work environments, because it wouldn't have been relevant to the study.

Redmond, now 40, didn't want to leave her tech career. But she felt stuck, with no way to advance. She said male co-workers seemed to oppose her.

And men don't have male co-workers opposing them.  Don't men have it so easy in life?

She had built a prototype for a travel website, she said, a feature to auto-suggest cities and airports based on the first three letters typed into the search field, fixing a long-standing problem. Her male bosses told her she'd built it without permission. In the end, the project was handed to someone else, and she was assigned to less interesting tasks. "They just kept asking me to prove myself over and over again," she said.

Only women have had this experience working in tech.  If you're a man in tech reading this, you can't relate, because things like this don't happen to you.

Wayne Sutton, a partner at BuildUp, a start-up that seeks out companies founded by women and minorities, says he often sees women treated unfairly.

I like this quote from a man who has created a business that openly discriminates against Caucasian men.  (Is Wayne a minority?  Or a secret she?  Not clear!)

Google, whose engineering workforce is only 17% female, introduced a training program in 2013 that aims to fight cultural biases. Employees play word association games, and are often surprised by how quickly they link engineering and coding professions with men, and less technical jobs with women.

Can't you just see Googlers, taken away from productive work, forced to sit in bright-colored children's chairs, while a highly paid provocateur shows them flashcards?

"Children, when I say computers, what do you think?"

"Men!"

"Programming?"

"Men!"

"The CEO of Yahoo and eBay?"

"Uh...men!"

Did I mention that the CEO of Yahoo is a woman, and the CEO of eBay and HP used to be women?  Never mind – that doesn't fit into the narrative of this story.

Google's own data showed women were promoted less often than men because workers need to nominate themselves. Google began including female leaders at workshops to coach everyone — men and women — on how to promote themselves effectively. The gender difference among nominees disappeared, Williams said.

"Girls, if you want a promotion, you have to raise your hands!  Susie, can you raise your hand?  Gooood Susie!"

Meanwhile, Pinterest has a special recruiter who focuses on "diversity"--no white or asian men need apply. But Facebook is the one that does the most handholding

Facebook, with a technical workforce that is 15% female, gathers its female employees from around the world for a leadership day filled with talks, workshops and support. Women also organize themselves into Facebook groups to share knowledge and experiences. The company also offers free classes for women on returning to the workplace.

I'm sure the female Facebook support groups are equally valuable.  Women are not capable of working in tech without having other anonymous women to talk to about their feelings.  Men are built to be able to work without a support group, but women obviously need these things.  Every tech company should have a woman-only room where women can go to get their nails done while they trade tips about yoga, green leaf diets, new lipstick colors, horoscopes, the 19 best ways to satisfy their man, and whether 50 Shades of Grey is better as a book or film.

Or, purely as a thought experiment, women could simply be treated the same as men, and if fewer women want to go into programming, or fewer women want to stay in an environment with long hours and stressful work, that's their decision to make.  Many people have frustrations at work, and it's easy to assign it to sexism, but the fact is that tech companies are dying to find qualified women to fill slots so they can show "diversity."  It's not very likely that they're trying to drive them away.

Alternatively, women can go into politics, since studies now show they make better legislators than men.

Pedro Gonzales is the editor of Newsmachete.com, a website 100% owned  and operated by women (once he gets his sex change operation).