Chapter 5
The Ethics of the Personal: Avoidable Ethical Compromise
“Deprived of meaningful work, both women and men go stark raving mad.”
Walking into the typical large information technology department of a Fortune 200 firm today, the cultural landscape is vastly different from my initial impressions. In the early 1980s when I started my career in information technology with a large U.S.-based firm, the anomaly was the handful of women among the legions of men. It was not atypical to find fewer than 5% women, mostly in junior or less prestigious roles.
Fast forward to the 1990s and the memorable launches of large offshore projects. I recall watching a handful of women in colorful saris get off an elevator in downtown Manhattan, ...
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