Twitter CEO Responds to Criticism That Company Lacks Female Execs

Shortly after Twitter released its IPO paperwork on Thursday, The New York Times highlighted a troubling statistic: one — that's the number of women listed at the top of the company.

Twitter has no female investors, no women on its board and only one woman on its top executive team — the company's general counsel — who was hired just over a month ago. It's certainly not unheard of for tech companies to have a disproportionate number of men in higher-up positions: Facebook, for example, didn't appoint its first female board member until the month after it went public, and Apple is somewhat infamous for having a leadership team that consists entirely of older white men. Read more...