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08-06-2013, 05:59 AM
LinkedIn faces accusations of sexism after 'it took down profile of a girl they thought was too good to be true'
LinkedIn has denied the accusation and claims an ad served by Toptal was temporarily taken down in error
By JAMES NYE
5 August 2013
LinkedIn, the job social networking site, has found itself at the center of a sexism storm after it pulled down ad posts of a woman they deemed too attractive to be a real-life web-engineer.
The controversy began when developer networking platform Toptal posted a series of advertisements onto LinkedIn aimed at the web-engineering sector.
However, LinkedIn quickly disabled the ads with no explanation and requested images 'related to the product', which caused a furious response from Toptal's CEO.
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Rejected: This picture of Argentinian web developer Florencia Antara (left and right) was removed from LinkedIn over the weekend and then allowed to be re-posted after accusations of sexism were leveled
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Spam-Like: This is how the advertisement appeared on LinkedIn - leading some to compare it to a mass spam email using attractive women to get traffic
'The fact of the matter is: members of the tech community (LinkedIn users) saw it as impossible that our female engineers could actually be engineers, and a leader of the tech community (LinkedIn) agreed with them,' wrote Toptal's CEO, Taso Du Val in a blog post according to The Daily Dot.
'Unfortunately we're banned from showing anything except 100 percent, all make software advertisements from now on and so, that's what you'll be getting.'
At first, Toptal had simply sent the same advertisements back to LinkedIn, including that of Argentinian web developer Florencia Antara, but LinkedIn barred them until they had made the necessary changes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384686/LinkedIn-faces-accusations-sexism-profile-Florencia-Antara.html#ixzz2bALkYvxs
LinkedIn has denied the accusation and claims an ad served by Toptal was temporarily taken down in error
By JAMES NYE
5 August 2013
LinkedIn, the job social networking site, has found itself at the center of a sexism storm after it pulled down ad posts of a woman they deemed too attractive to be a real-life web-engineer.
The controversy began when developer networking platform Toptal posted a series of advertisements onto LinkedIn aimed at the web-engineering sector.
However, LinkedIn quickly disabled the ads with no explanation and requested images 'related to the product', which caused a furious response from Toptal's CEO.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/05/article-2384686-1B269ED4000005DC-267_306x423.jpghttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/05/article-2384686-1B269EE0000005DC-352_306x423.jpg
Rejected: This picture of Argentinian web developer Florencia Antara (left and right) was removed from LinkedIn over the weekend and then allowed to be re-posted after accusations of sexism were leveled
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/05/article-2384686-1B269ECC000005DC-667_634x228.jpg
Spam-Like: This is how the advertisement appeared on LinkedIn - leading some to compare it to a mass spam email using attractive women to get traffic
'The fact of the matter is: members of the tech community (LinkedIn users) saw it as impossible that our female engineers could actually be engineers, and a leader of the tech community (LinkedIn) agreed with them,' wrote Toptal's CEO, Taso Du Val in a blog post according to The Daily Dot.
'Unfortunately we're banned from showing anything except 100 percent, all make software advertisements from now on and so, that's what you'll be getting.'
At first, Toptal had simply sent the same advertisements back to LinkedIn, including that of Argentinian web developer Florencia Antara, but LinkedIn barred them until they had made the necessary changes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384686/LinkedIn-faces-accusations-sexism-profile-Florencia-Antara.html#ixzz2bALkYvxs