Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal

Re:Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal by rb808 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:07PM (#14195682)

I think its largely because she's a woman. Yahoo was a already sinking ship when she took over and I think she did a decent job.

There are loads of overpaid executives in tech and no-one else gets as much hate as Marissa does. The main other unliked executive is Sheryl Sandberg who's also missing a Y Chromosome.

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Re:Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal by vaishaksuresh on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:12PM (#14195743)

Or, it could just be your confirmation bias. I'm not saying women aren't treated harshly, but plenty of male CEOs also get flak (uber, Adobe etc). IMHO, women are treated unfairly at lower levels of work, it is hard to sympathize equally for someone who has risen to the CEO level and still feels discriminated.

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Re:Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal by GVIrish on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:33PM (#14195996)

I think Marissa Mayer's gender was a double-edged sword. She got a lot more media coverage than most males would've gotten in her situation and I think that gave her turnaround effort a bit of a positive perception boost. She also received a lot of scrutiny and a magnifying glass on mistakes whereas a male in that situation might not have.

I agree that Yahoo was a sinking ship from the start, and ultimately I think she may get another shot at CEO because of that.

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