IBM's Red Hat Diversity: Only 3 Women (Out of 11 Leaders)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 20, 2026

2020: IBM (Red Hat) Lectured FSF That It Needed More Diversity, But Was It Looking at the Mirror? IBM and Red Hat Are Even Less Diverse.

2026: (today)

For comparison's sake, the FSF is about 50% female. IBM's Red Hat is "mansplaining" to others... in an act of corporate trolling.

So with the "summits" and the "meetings" and all that... who does the talking for Red Hat? Men.

Nothing wrong with men, not per se.

But IBM's Red Hat needs to shut up and stop lecturing others.

IBM's Red Hat keeps using the word "master".

IBM's Red Hat is laying off many women.

IBM's Red Hat means nothing to feminism.

Nothing.

Pure rhetoric. An exercise in PR.

Decades before IBM's Red Hat even existed IBM's chief, who was the son of the founder, assaulted a woman on the plane.

We keep criticising IBM. What do we get? Men who assault women throw SLAPPs our way. █