The fact that corporations tend not to treat employees as multifaceted human beings does not strike me as a gender issue. In fact none of the feminist items that I've heard since the late 80s strike me as gender issues. Instead, it seems to me that in complaining, feminists ignore the fact that all the same things happen to men too. Most men are not in power. We get passed up for promotion. We get ignored in meetings. We don't get treated like multifaceted human beings and aren't payed what we're worth -- in our opinion.
Roughly 90% of mechanical engineers are men. Roughly 90% of the people in prison are men. If a feminist is going to insist that one is the result of sexism and the other is not, then feminism is going to have serious trust issues in the near future.
It's common these days for activists coming out of humanities departments to deconstruct some area of enterprise, like video games, according to the ontology of feminism. These people, feminists, have been giving themselves a bad reputation for nonsense for many years now. It's difficult to take much of what they say seriously anymore.
Of course Silicon Valley culture is toxic. People are driven to move here not because of a strange affinity for the soul of the machine; but to make money. It seems as if everyone talks the same way, and has the same bland ideas. I'm sure that it's not really that bad, but it seems that way from what we hear on line and off line. Some of the corporate world is invigorating, especially start ups, and I truly enjoyed PG's essays that talked about viaweb and fixing bugs with the customer on the phone. But much of corporate structure is so empty and even deceptive, it pisses me off.
Women are deliberate thinkers. They ruminate on important decisions. In my opinion women should stop blaming other people and take up their own agency, and show us how to do it better. Lead by example. Not as an employee: you'll have to start your own company. To be blunt I believe such an exercise will be humbling for the women who try it. But there's no reason companies can't be structured and run much better by being run by women. There must already be examples out there.