As much as Reddit needs to change its community management strategy I do really hate this narrative. The four women who left the company left for very different reasons. Victoria Taylor was fired. Ellen Pao and Bethanye Blount resigned after the (entirely appropriate) backlash after Taylor was fired. And now this person seems to be resigning because her husband also resigned and they want to start a new business. A perfectly common occurrence in the tech industry. Four women left the company for disparate reasons.
Figuring out how to preserve the openness that makes many parts of Reddit some of the most interesting places on the internet while stopping the parts that are some of the worst is a very difficult problem. The company appears to be doing this while also try to become more profitable. The site and the corporation are in a transition right now and employee turnover is expected. Boiling it down to ‘reddit hates women’ is false and ignores a much more interesting story about managing speech and communities on the internet.
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