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Women executives of Switch playfully poke fun at traditional gender expectations in the tech industry by modeling in the style of a Vanity Fair cover. They are, from left, Missy Young, Terri Borden, Tracy Brown, Jaclyn Miller, Lesley McVay and Kristi Overgaard. (courtesy)
Switching up the industry standard With seven women among its top 14 executives, data company sets itself apart By Daniel Rothberg | Staff Writer
When Missy Young, now an executive vice president at Las Vegas data company Switch, was 12, she remembers her mother “banging her head against the glass ceiling” as the only female vice president at a bank. ¶ She was paid $50,000 per year less than her male colleagues. ¶ “That’s not fair,” Young told her mother at the time. “You should make a lot of Women of switch, Continued on pag e 15
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