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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Meanwhile, Twitter began taking steps to replace those terms earlier this year and hopes to finish replacing that terminology by the end of 2021, according to CNET. . Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

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allocate 98% of their funding to startups helmed by men. Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. It’s no wonder, then, how we’ve ended up with the paradox of the “girlboss.” .

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