Taking over the tyranny of the Tech Bros

The halo of tech bros is fading, and by 2025 the glamor of the computing industry will be continues to fadealso. While other STEM fields are making strides toward increasing their workforce participation, year after year computing, a supposedly innovative field, is failing to recruit, retain, and respect women and non-binary workers. serving the social good are some of the core values ​​that drive workplace culture.These values ​​and high-tech ways to control them through bias, discrimination, and harassment in companies make up the “Bro Code.”

It Bro Code: perpetuates high tolerance from sexual assault. It also contributes to the failure of the field to correct its strict segregation 21 percent Computer programming positions are held by women. Of that 21 percent, only 2 percent are African-American, and only 1 percent are Latino. women are disproportionately affected during the downsizing of industry. For example: about 70 percent Among the layoffs in 2022 were women. This follows my experience at Big Tech. As soon as the company went public, the only layoffs in my department were women.

Furthermore, with their vast wealth and masterful branding, Bro Code leaders believe they are wizards or priests. They tend to suppress protest and resistance. For example, the tech bros in 2023 have performed Grace Hopper celebrationthe world’s largest conference for women and non-binary tech workers.Women in attendance I spoke to at the career fair described men simply queuing in front of them, and some said they were verbally harassed and assaulted.

In 2025, the march of the future dictated by the algorithmic masters will fail. Coalitions between feminist movements and labor activism will increase public control of tech culture. Bro Code leaders make a big game of its socially revolutionary impact, but my research participants felt thwarted when they tried. used their technical skills to serve others. For example, Lin said an eye-tracking device he developed to help people with disabilities was repurposed. for marketing analysis. Shauna’s labmates gave her the nickname “accessible blob” as she worked on programs to help those with no computer skills.

As Big Tech continues to make empty promises instead of solving social problems while avoiding taxes, rolling back regulations, and promoting wage inequality, the public will continue to be disillusioned with the industry. skepticism about the service of computing to humanity.

Disenfranchised tech workers will continue to help us hold Bro Code leaders accountable not only for not living up to its widely publicized altruism, but also their efforts to: hide social harms from their products. How? recent organizational works According to tech workers, strong coalitions among workers scare these ruling elites the most.For example, in 2018, more than 20,000 Google employees has organized a worldwide walkout against sexual harassment and systemic racism in the company. In 2025, activism against militarization, racism, sexism and economic exploitation in the tech industry will rise higher than the space planes of Bro Code executives.