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July 26, 2012 01:25 am GMT

One Womans Quest to Change the Ratio in Tech




Ask Rachel Sklar, and she'll tell you that there are a lot of "dudes" in tech. Not that she doesn't like dudes; she just thinks there are women in the industry who don't get their due. So she founded Change the Ratio in spring 2010 to bring awareness to all the great work women are accomplishing. And when a "power list" of 100 industry leaders had only seven women, Sklar gave the digital media equivalent of a slap upside the chops.

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"Everyone on this list is eminently qualified to be on it," wrote Sklar. "But that doesnt change the fact that its a list of mostly white men, chosen b…
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