That has led to the emergence of new media companies, mainly in the more liberal coastal city of Jeddah, dedicated to amusing the kingdom's growing population.In the glassy offices of UTURN Entertainment, one such firm, men and abaya-clad women play table-football and squeeze putty between commissioning and recording videos for their YouTube channel.
Before digging into the findings, it's important to note some basic baseline information about the gender makeup of the firm: men outnumbered women five to one in terms of total population, and men represented 88% of the company's partners.
The firm, manned by an impressive set of software hackers, claimed to be able to virtualize both Android and iOS completely enough to act as an environment for bug testing and hardware emulation.
"While several mutual funds continue to have significant exposure to Puerto Rico … hedge funds and other distressed players have increasingly been involved," Marc Bushallow, managing director of fixed income at the asset management firm Manning & Napier, told VICE News.
Although some institutions have made changes, at many firms, men at the top still institute policies and practices based on the notion that employees have partners who can keep the household running and look after the kids.
Yet among HLS graduates who work at law firms, men are significantly more likely to be equity partners and to be in positions of leadership than their female classmates even though women work more hours, on average.
This is worse than the glass ceiling effect that's been identified for women; in these five firms, men are 42% more likely to have an executive role than women, and white men and women are 154% more likely than Asians to hold an executive role.
At venture capital firms, men become investment partners -- the critical roles -- while women are shuttled into communications or marketing jobs.
One of the reasons legal secretaries prefer to work for men is obvious: in most law firms, men hold the power.
A lawyer at a small firm, the man said his family has occasional health issues.
