I’ve been seeing questions raised within the tech crowd regarding the absence of women in high tech. One such conversation mentioned a tech conference that was scheduled to have 20 some odd speakers, only one of whom was a woman.
I’m not questioning the validity of that observation. I agree that there are too few women in prominent positions within the community. That’s not to say there aren’t women in the tech field. They just aren’t often given as many opportunities as their fellow male counterparts to be highly visible and influential.
But it did get me thinking; is technology neutral on sexuality? There’s certainly tech gadgets and applications geared toward men, women, children, tweens, just about every demographic one can imagine but one. Gays.
Why are there no prominent gay voices within the tech field? Is there any application or program that especially appeals to gays? I know there are gay themed websites, but where are the gay entrepreneurs, the gay VCs, the proudly gay developers? Is being gay of no consequence to technology?
