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Tech has a woman problem.

At the annual Consumer Electronics Show this week, "booth babes" are still in action, despite an effort to change the practice of hiring scantily clad women to tout the latest gadgets. At a hackathon sponsored by TechCrunch in September, the first presentation was from a pair of male developers introducing a tastelessly named app that allowed men to share photos of themselves ogling women. And it’s not just sexist jokes: Last year, several female software engineers reported that they had been sexually assaulted at tech conferences.

By Ann Friedman

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/tech-women-are-busy-building-their-own-networks/2014/01/08/60e356f2-7874-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html?tid=hpModule_d39b60e8-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z10

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