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6 Aug 2013

'Too pretty to be a web developer' LinkedIn faces accusations of sexism

LinkedIn, the job social networking site, faces accusation of sexism after it pulled down ad posts of a woman they deemed too attractive to be a real-life web-engineer. 

The controversy began when developer networking platform Toptal posted a series of advertisements onto LinkedIn aimed at the web-engineering sector.

However, LinkedIn quickly disabled the ads with no explanation and requested images 'related to the product', which caused a furious response from Toptal's CEO.

Toptal CEO Taso Du Val made his displeasure at LinkedIn known through a blog post entitled 'In Defense of Female Engineers'

In response, a spokesperson for LinkedIn, which bills itself as the 'World's Largest Professional Network', said the ads were rejected in a mistake caused by a review at their customer service team.

''While Customer Service was going through a standard process of reviewing LinkedIn Ads, TopTal's ads were rejected in error. We have taken the necessary measures to approve the previously rejected ads, and TopTal can now run them on our platform as intended.'


Lol! being pretty has become a crime.

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