What are the shortcomings of IT companies symbolized by the length of the toilet rows?

Tony Alter

A Silicon Valley high-tech enterprise is known to be totally different from a general company, such as having a restaurant that can eat free at any time, but it seems to also appear in the "row of toilets". "The strangeness" in the row of toilets peculiar to this high-tech enterprise reflects the troubles that high-tech companies face.

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It is common for women to take toilets for overwhelmingly longer time than men and for men to wear large rows in toilets is pretty. But Apple's developer event "WWDC 2015At the venue of "Matrix toilet matrix" as if to reverse the flow of the world was made.

It took part in WWDC 2015Alice Trunong'S tweets.

Always entertaining at dev conferences: line for the dude's restroom (also a much smaller one for ladies)# WWDC 15Pic.twitter.com/2n166oLN9Z

- Alice Truong (@ alicetruong)2015, June 8

The long line of men's toilet is a highlight of the developer conference. On the other hand, the short thing in the row of ladies' toilets ... ....

I also participated in WWDC 2015Jonathan Bloom'S tweets.

At# WWDC, It's apparent the quest to get women interested in software engineering still has a ways to go.Pic.twitter.com/iepwRa0rFO

- Jonathan Bloom (@ BloomTV)2015, June 8

The adventure of finding women interested in software engineering seems to have a long way to go.

A strange sight that a long line of long lines can be formed only in a male toilet is not unique in 2015. This is a tweet of 2014 WWDC.

Apple WWDC ... where there's a long bathroom line for men and not women.Pic.twitter.com/Vuf34MMDJz

- Jo Ling Kent (@ jolingkent)2014, June 2

A similar view in 2013.

WWDC explained in one photo.Pic.twitter.com/fm8jAqEs4v

- Dan Ackerman (@ danackerman)2013, June 10

These tweets include nuances that mocked that "high-tech companies have few women". Because the number of women involved in high-tech companies is overwhelmingly small compared to men, even if there are as many long-haired rows as there are for men as many as female toilets, female toilets are always rattled.

This is Google, Yahoo! , Graphs showing the ratio of men and women of key high-tech enterprise employees, Facebook, Apple, Twitter. The proportion of women in both companies is less than a quarter.


The diversity of human resources is thought to lead to innovation of services, and in high-tech companies Yahoo! Increasing the number of female officers as typified by Marissa Mayer's CEO, confessing that Apple's CEO Tim Cook is gay, and revealing the corporate stance that emphasizes gender diversity, "Recognizing the actual state of the high-tech enterprise that is said, efforts to improve the balance are being promoted.