Silicon Valley wants to be a meritocracy : here's why it's not.

Silicon Valley prides itself on rewarding good engineers, regardless of gender or race. But that may not actually reflect reality. The Valley started out as a Mad Men-esque place, where women in particular were excluded. That culture still persists in the form of venture capitalists funding many of...

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