definition for: #TWITTERWHITEMALEONLYCLUB

What’s white, male, straight, and occasionally hangs out with Asian guys? Silicon Valley. Why does Twitter and other Silicon Valley companies only employ white males when a majority of their users come from minorities. Silicon Valley The Observer Silicon Valley is cool and powerful. But where are the women? "The incident is representative of a larger truth recognised by many women in Silicon Valley’s tech industry: sexist behaviour is alive and well. A long string of lawsuits alleging sexual harassment at tech startup companies and venture capital firms is currently making its way through the courts. And the sexist culture spills out in public, too. At last month’s annual Crunchies – the tech world’s closest thing to the Oscars – the presenter repeatedly called one woman in the audience a bitch and casually threw out a racist remark (the event’s hosts, the blog Techcrunch, apologised)."