Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told the New York Times that gender does not matter in tech, the same year the Grace Hopper Celebration was cancelled for lack of registrations and sponsorships.
Asked to name three things she loves about her daughter, Mayer let the AI she had just launched answer: empathetic, creative, an animal lover. What is stranger is her take on gender: it fades into the background, and passion is a gender-neutralising force. Half of women in tech leave by 35, and women founders get half the funding men do.
This year the Grace Hopper Celebration was cancelled; about 15,000 people attended in 2025, the fewest since 2016. An attendee from 2023 described men flooding the recruiter booths, waving resumes in people's faces and shoving those in line.
Mayer may genuinely believe her own line. Her new app Dazzle analyses your camera roll, and she suggests letting AI plan a birthday party.
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