Why are so many big tech whistleblowers women? Here is what the research shows – The Conversation

(This article first appeared in The Conversation on June 6, 2022)

• A number of high-profile whistleblowers in the technology industry have stepped into the spotlight in the past few years. For the most part, they have been revealing corporate practices that thwart the public interest: Frances Haugen exposed personal data exploitation at Meta, Timnit Gebru and Rebecca Rivers challenged Google on ethics and AI issues and Janneke Parrish raised concerns about the discriminatory work culture at Apple, among others…