White House tech chief hits Hollywood for gender bias

US Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith said that Hollywood is forgetting to include women scientists in its major blockbusters.

She said there were plenty of women who helped the United Kingdom crack the Enigma code and beat the Nazis, but they weren’t represented in the Oscar-nominated “The Imitation Game.” “Jobs” -- the biopic about the Apple founder starring Ashton Kutcher -- left many of the female developers who helped start the computing company off the screen, she added. “If you look at the Rolling Stone’s photographs about who made the Macintosh with Steve, seven men and five women appear in all those photos,” Smith, a former Google executive, said. “But in the scene of the movie from Hollywood, accidentally no women were cast in that scene.”