Will Silicon Valley Have Its NFL Moment?

Is Silicon Valley paying attention to the public purge as the NFL grapples with long-standing bad behavior by several of its men toward women and children?

As in the NFL, ill treatment of women in tech isn't new. What's startling is how in professional football, major financial stakeholders have suddenly decided that enough is enough, or at least are paying strong lip service to the idea. Sponsors have withdrawn contracts, politicians are raising eyebrows about oversight and stadium funding, and players are being yanked from the field. Not so in tech, where in a community of advanced thinkers, a level of retrograde behavior and products is proving remarkably resilient. In Silicon Valley, misogyny and sexism remain ripe for disruption.