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Can you not pick your preferred institution for giving birth? For our first child, we deliberately chose a hospital with a special children's unit attached, just in case (admittedl…

"states devoted about 6 percent of block grants in 2016 to programs for mothers, compared to 78 percent for infants and special-needs children" Maybe that simply reflects the need …

Google for "Paypal froze my account" or similar things. Nobody can prevent you from getting a "Bitcoin account" and from spending your coins.

Actually since there are so many more men than women in tech, most things you describe happen more often to men than to women. For every women who nobody listens to in a meeting, t…

Citation?

Surely everybody on HN knew that already?

It sounds like good-natured fun, but it actually seems like an equivalent to the notorious "security competitions" - it can then be claimed that "nobody managed to write an underha…

Are the sexual harassment cases related to women receiving less funding? Intuitively it might seem likely, but the recent stories have been about sexual harassment, not about likel…

I think the "position" of power thing is often overblown. Most women are not prostitutes, so they are perfectly capable of turning down some money (in the VC case). For employees, …

By hiring exclusively men, or exclusively women.

With respect to #4, men marrying "down" has historically been the biggest contributor to social mobility.

To me, it is one of the feminist headfakes that looking similar is what matters most. Like suppose a girl is interested in maths and another girl is interested in dolls, and a boy …