Sili Valley: Unfriendly to Women? “Monika Khushf, director of engineering at Intuit, has made a documentary film that reveals the effects of Silicon Valley work culture on women engineers.” It seems that male engineers spend their time using Nerf weaponry and building things with Lego and soda cans. But “the social gap in notions of fun may have more to do with age than gender.” I’d agree somewhat. The demographics of a company can predict what types of bonding you will find in the hallways, but it’s really the specific personalities that have been added and cultivated that determine if everyone’s playing with toys or isolating themselves in their cubes. (I hate generalizations, but I probably use them as much as everyone else.) Some people (women and others) may feel isolated in toy-heavy environments, but there are also toy-loving individuals stuck in rigid companies who are wondering if a job has to be this boring.