After Marissa Mayer left her post as CEO of Yahoo in 2017, Susan Wojjeski at YouTube and Sheryl Sandberg at Meta were the two big names in big tech. Naomi Nix is a reporter for The Washington Post. She's been covering layoffs at social media companies. Has gathered some data that shows those layoffs are hitting women and people of color harder than they are men and white employees.
Execs like YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki and Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg paved the way for women in tech. Now they’re leaving the industry — and being replaced by men.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette with additional fact help from Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.
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