Thoughtful, inspiring article.
What's up with the spelling of the last line, though?
Dear Marissa: Think Different
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#12This is an interesting idea, but the title is dangerous. As has been pointed out a lot lately, making something "pink" doesn't mean you can sell it to women. :) Edit: Just noticed that Gina Trapani helped forge the headline... It's probably OK ;)
Interesting episode of QI(G07) points out that prior to the 20th century the colours pink & blue for boys & girls were reversed..
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#13"What if Marissa made it known that Yahoo would be the best tech company in the world for hiring women execs, putting women in leadership positions, and advancing the opportunities for women in the workplace (as Sheryl Sandberg is so well-known for promoting at Facebook)?" Sounds discriminatory to me.
This presupposes that the industry-wide preference for male employees is not discriminatory, which scarcely goes without saying.
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#14This is an interesting idea, but the title is dangerous. As has been pointed out a lot lately, making something "pink" doesn't mean you can sell it to women. :) Edit: Just noticed that Gina Trapani helped forge the headline... It's probably OK ;)
I'd be more worried about the fact that without the line break it reads like "Pink is the new purple, dear Marisa" which sounds pretty condescending.
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#15"What if Marissa made it known that Yahoo would be the best tech company in the world for hiring women execs, putting women in leadership positions, and advancing the opportunities for women in the workplace (as Sheryl Sandberg is so well-known for promoting at Facebook)?" Sounds discriminatory to me.
This presupposes that the industry-wide preference for male employees is not discriminatory, which scarcely goes without saying.
Agreed, given the overwhelming discrimination that demonstrably exists in IT sectors it would be nigh on impossible to prove that hiring a lot of women was an act of discrimination as opposed to a natural result of not discriminating.
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#16What if Yahoo went back to its vision for media and entertainment,
i.e. what a lot of people think has been wrong with Yahoo for a long, long time now.
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#17"What if Marissa made it known that Yahoo would be the best tech company in the world for hiring women execs, putting women in leadership positions, and advancing the opportunities for women in the workplace (as Sheryl Sandberg is so well-known for promoting at Facebook)?" Sounds discriminatory to me.
This presupposes that the industry-wide preference for male employees is not discriminatory, which scarcely goes without saying.
A covert, indirect bias is one thing; an explicit codified bias, quite another.
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#18"What if Marissa made it known that Yahoo would be the best tech company in the world for hiring women execs, putting women in leadership positions, and advancing the opportunities for women in the workplace (as Sheryl Sandberg is so well-known for promoting at Facebook)?" Sounds discriminatory to me.
This presupposes that the industry-wide preference for male employees is not discriminatory, which scarcely goes without saying.
You suppose that there is an "industry-wide preference for male employees".
Just like I suppose there is an "industry-wide preference for female employees" in K-6 education.
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#19As one of the few women on Hacker News, I'm going to come right out and say it: I think this is a fantastic idea, and Marissa Mayer would do well to take it to heart. Imagine if Yahoo made a serious bid for Pinterest, and then Marissa went really crazy and made their homepage into a Pinterest-like site. Not only would it cause a great sensational uproar in the press, but it would make Yahoo a serious contender again.…
then Marissa went really crazy and made their homepage into a Pinterest-like site.
Heck, nothing's too crazy for a company in free fall.
Re: Dear Marissa: Think Different
#20Dave, just curious, did you properly capitalize and punctuate this or did Svbtle do that for you?