On march 27th the California Superior Court gave Ellen Pao a chance to test one of Silicon Valley's most cherished pieces of wisdom-that failure is a wonderful pedagogic opportunity. Ms Pao lost her case for sexual discrimination against her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture-capital firm. But she succeeded in turning a spotlight on sexism in tech: the Valley has talked about little else since her trial began, and two other discrimination cases, against Facebook and Twitter, were launched while it was under way.
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