LinkedIn faces accusations of sexism after it takes down profile of a girl who they said was 'too pretty to be a web developer'
LinkedIn, the job social networking site, has found itself at the center of a sexism storm 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.
Rejected: This picture of Argentinian web developer Florencia Antara (left and right) was removed from LinkedIn over the weekend and then allowed to be re-posted after accusations of sexism were leveled
Spam-Like: This is how the advertisement appeared on LinkedIn - leading some to compare it to a mass spam email using attractive women to get traffic
'The fact of the matter is: members of the tech community (LinkedIn users) saw it as impossible that our female engineers could actually be engineers, and a leader of the tech community (LinkedIn) agreed with them,' wrote Toptal's CEO, Taso Du Val in a blog post according to The Daily Dot.
'Unfortunately we're banned from showing anything except
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