[erikpukinskis]

Yet this is one of the central business models of Silicon Valley: build a software apparatus, hire "interchangeable" women to take care of the human side of it, pay them "market rates" which for women's work means "the lowest acceptable wage for at least one woman in the social class your customers expect" (they're interchangeable, any woman could follow the script. The hard part is building The Apparatus that tells them what to do. So we pay men big bucks to build The Apparatus).

It's all built on the fundamental belief that the work these ladies are doing is interchangeable while the men's work is not.

Is that really true though?

And of course sometimes you find a pool of men who will let you treat them interchangeably too...

[psyc]

What is this SV software company role that is filled exclusively by underpaid women? I'm trying to think of what you might be referring to, but honestly have no idea.

[erikpukinskis]

Customer support and office manager are the big ones. I wouldn't use the word exclusively.