--- title: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Essay on Tech's Sexism Problem description: Find out what YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote in Vanity Fair about how tech can fix its sexism problem. canonical: https://time.com/4705139/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism-essay/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-17T15:48:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:12.680Z og:title: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Offers Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Sexism Problem og:description: ‘I hope next year we have a different story’ og:url: https://time.com/4705139/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism-essay/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3520ff03b1184f6/6988bed5656a3fc2dfbcf2f9/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Offers Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Sexism Problem twitter:description: ‘I hope next year we have a different story’ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3520ff03b1184f6/6988bed5656a3fc2dfbcf2f9/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Offers Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Sexism Problem  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Mar 17, 2017 3:48 PM UTC  SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 20: CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, speaks onstage during "What If the Platform Is the Message? (Or What IfContent Isn’t King?)" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 20, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 20: CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, speaks onstage during "What If the Platform Is the Message? (Or What IfContent Isn’t King?)" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 20, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)Michael Kovac—Getty Images for Vanity Fair  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Mar 17, 2017 3:48 PM UTC YouTube CEO [Susan Wojcicki](http://time.com/collection-post/3822770/susan-wojcicki-2015-time-100/) has some ideas on how to tackle Silicon Valley’s [well-documented sexism problem.](http://motto.time.com/4704219/silicon-valley-sexism-project-include/) In [an essay](http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-to-break-up-the-silicon-valley-boys-club-susan-wojcicki) for _Vanity Fair_, Wojcicki, one of the [most powerful female leaders](https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2016/06/06/the-worlds-most-powerful-women-in-tech/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/) in the tech, said that [allegations of sexual harassment](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/uber-s-handling-susan-fowler-scandal-will-determine-it-fate-n723596) at Uber illustrate just how much work the industry still has to do when it comes to supporting women in the workplace. “Like many who read the stories, I was mad,” she wrote. “But I was also frustrated that an industry so quick to embrace and change the future can’t break free of its regrettable past.” **_Read More:_** [**_Esther Wojcicki’s Tips on Raising Confident Daughters_**](http://motto.time.com/4468480/how-to-raise-confident-daughters/) Wojcicki has some prescriptions for tech companies on how they can finally make strides on the issue. She says that CEOs need to prioritize gender diversity, citing Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who [announced an “unlimited](http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-announces-unlimited-maternity-and-paternity-leave-2015-8)” parental leave policy for his employees in 2015, as a prime example for others to follow. She also suggested that business leaders at all levels should make it a priority to “extend their privilege” by advocating for and elevating female colleagues. “As someone who’s been lucky to have a great career in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career in this industry can be for women,” she wrote. “And I want to make sure we continue to recruit and retain great female hires. As we work to improve our company cultures, I hope next year we hear a different story in Silicon Valley, one about greater diversity making the tech industry even stronger and more innovative.” Read [her full essay at _Vanity Fair_](http://motto.time.com/4704219/silicon-valley-sexism-project-include/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4705139/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism-essay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4705139/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism-essay/"},"headline":"YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Offers Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Sexism Problem","datePublished":"2017-03-17T15:48:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:12.680Z","description":"‘I hope next year we have a different story’","url":"https://time.com/4705139/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism-essay/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3520ff03b1184f6/6988bed5656a3fc2dfbcf2f9/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3520ff03b1184f6/6988bed5656a3fc2dfbcf2f9/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2","caption":"Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2","creditText":"Michael Kovac—Getty Images for Vanity Fair","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4705139/susan-wojcicki-silicon-valley-sexism-essay/","name":"YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Offers Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Sexism Problem"}}]}] ```