SILICON VALLEY HIRES FEMALE MODELS FOR THEIR MOSTLY-MALE XMAS PARTIES

There is a well-known gender gap problem in Silicon Valley – the ratio of men to women is very, very… very… high. To mask the disparity between men and women working in tech at holiday parties, companies have found a solution: Hiring paid models. A “record number” of tech companies are paying between $50 and $200 per model to staff its parties, according to a new report from Bloomberg. For an event this past weekend, Cre8 modeling agency had 25 attractive women (and five men!) hanging out with a San Francisco gaming company that’s “pretty much all men,” according to the report. The models are handpicked and have to sign nondisclosure agreements. The models are given the names of workers and told to “pretend” they’re friends. The Cre8 agency said they were sending models to seven different parties in the same weekend.
* On the women’s name tags, it just says, “FEMALE”. You gotta start slow with these tech guys.
* “Hi, I’m Denise. I work on the fourth floor.” “We don’t have a fourth floor.”
* Nondisclosure agreements? I think I know what separates the $50 girls from the $200 girls.
* I can’t believe these guys haven’t just built their own companions by now.
* At a Silicon Valley party, somebody shouts, “Let’s raise the roof!”, and 35 guys will go off in a corner figure out how to do it literally.