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Michelle Obama to Silicon Valley: 'Are you ready to have women at the table?'
CNN Tech ^ | June 6, 2017 | Heather Kelly

Posted on 06/07/2017 8:23:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Michelle Obama looked out into an audience packed with mostly male tech workers and asked them to make room for women in technology.

Obama was a guest speaker at WWDC, Apple's annual developer conference, on Tuesday. She was introduced by Tim Cook himself before sitting down with Lisa Jackson, the former head of the EPA who now heads up social and environmental initiatives for Apple. Their hour-long discussion touched on Obama's post-White House life, diversity in tech and not falling down the stairs of Air Force One.

Apple did not allow press into the event, but CNN Tech spoke to a developer who was in the room for Obama's talk.....

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; michelleobama; michellespeech; obama; siliconvalley; women
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Who told her that she is still relevant?
1 posted on 06/07/2017 8:23:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps.

But not you!


2 posted on 06/07/2017 8:26:50 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

Magilla Gorilla has nothing on you mooch - except looks, class and intelligence.


3 posted on 06/07/2017 8:28:46 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Michelle could do for silicon valley what she did for school lunches.


4 posted on 06/07/2017 8:30:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Michelle could do for silicon valley what she did for school lunches.


5 posted on 06/07/2017 8:30:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

6 posted on 06/07/2017 8:30:57 PM PDT by Delta 21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better leave two seats for Mooch!


7 posted on 06/07/2017 8:31:12 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
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To: DannyTN

I like your name.

Catch this wolf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dprf75bbL3A


8 posted on 06/07/2017 8:33:58 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They continue to eat their own.


9 posted on 06/07/2017 8:34:22 PM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was Carly not a female?


10 posted on 06/07/2017 8:38:30 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The national herpe flares up. And at the table? With her everything is food, isn’t it?


11 posted on 06/07/2017 8:41:35 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Most of us know that there are few women that go for advanced degrees in computer tech.

Many businesses want to advance women and minorities but too few are at the higher levels.


12 posted on 06/07/2017 8:45:02 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nope.

Why would God fill you full of milk and eggs if your natural role was suppose to be in the kitchen? /S


13 posted on 06/07/2017 8:47:26 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BunnySlippers

I work with some of the brightest women with advanced degrees in computer tech.

For the past 27 years.

It would appear that more than just the Mooch have not clue one.

No offense, FRiend.


14 posted on 06/07/2017 8:52:19 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unfortunately for Michelle and her leftie buds, Silicon Valley runs on demonstrated accomplishments in the engineering and computer sciences fields - you get to the table by showing what you can do, not so much by talking faster and louder than the next guy - when enough ladies can match other techies in what the Valley does, they’ll get their place at the table....


15 posted on 06/07/2017 8:52:57 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not clear that “she” is a woman.


16 posted on 06/07/2017 8:54:39 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Percentage-wise, how close are they to 50-50 with males?


17 posted on 06/07/2017 8:54:47 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well since Lisa Jackson and Moochelle have NOTHING meaningful to contribute to the tech industry, they are hardly the appropriate judges of how many and which women should be “at the table” in technical work.

Let people of whatever description rise and perform on their own merits, not on the basis of socio-political pressure moves by the likes of Moochelle.


18 posted on 06/07/2017 8:59:45 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: BunnySlippers

50-50 a couple of years ago.

Over the past 4-5 years, female college interns have been brought in and hired at the end of their internships.

About 60-40 females, as we speak.

Works for me...;-)


19 posted on 06/07/2017 9:00:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who told him HE was a woman?


20 posted on 06/07/2017 9:04:08 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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