I invited three women to be on the board of my corporation. All of them turned me down. All of the men I invited onto my board accepted.
Why There Are No Women on Twitter’s Board, and So Few in Technology
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#12I'm sure black people just aren't genetically apt for STEM either? Just because there's evidence for a correlation between gender and math scores doesn't mean there's a genetic reason for the disparity.
I'm confused as to why you are bringing up genetics. The article didn't. Is this just a straw man you wish to knock down?
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#13Let me posit another question, why are there no visible minorities on Twitter's board?
And why aren't people getting up and arms over that?
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#14Maybe the construct of a "management board" isn't appealing to the mentality of women (huge generalization admittedly). Imagine a history of humanity dominated by females as much as our human history was dominated by males to this point. Would the female dominated society create something like a management board? Would they create something different?
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#15Hardly a definitive proof that it's all just biology.
I'd scale it back, and draw the conclusions more conservatively. Along the lines of 'employment statistics don't necessarily imply discrimination'. Just because twitter's board is mostly male, doesn't necessarily mean that being male was a requirement. No one would argue that truck drivers are mostly men due to hiring policies.
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#16I'm sure black people just aren't genetically apt for STEM either? Just because there's evidence for a correlation between gender and math scores doesn't mean there's a genetic reason for the disparity.
I'm confused as to why you are bringing up genetics. The article didn't. Is this just a straw man you wish to knock down?
Perhaps I should've said biologically, as the article did. The point is that when you say one class of people (females) isn't represented in an industry because "they just aren't born that way," what differentiates it from any other class of people (such as African Americans).
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#17This is pretty lazy thinking. It's hard to even call it a rationalization when it makes no sense:
"Males around the world on average tend to be better at doing [math] than females; likely due to the need to fashion weapons and objects for warfare, hunting, and competing throughout evolutionary history."
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#18There's one really, incredibly glaring flaw in this argument right near the start. He argues that it takes men to come up with sites like Twitter and Facebook because most venture-capital-backed startups are created by men. Except, of course, venture capitalists openly admit they choose startups to back not just on their merits, but "pattern matching" the founders to what they expect a startup founder to look like - and everyone expects startup founders to be male. Even if women were just as good at founding successful startups, we'd expect them to be less common than male founders simply because VCs go with what they're used to.
He is essentially arguing that women are inherently worse at founding tech companies because they're under-represented in an area where people discriminate against them based on the belief they're inherently worse at founding tech companies.
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#20Hardly a definitive proof that it's all just biology. I'd scale it back, and draw the conclusions more conservatively. Along the lines of 'employment statistics don't necessarily imply discrimination'. Just because twitter's board is mostly male, doesn't necessarily mean that being male was a requirement. No one would argue that truck drivers are mostly men due to hiring policies.
No, but people would argue that mostly men are truck drivers due to rigid gender roles and strict gender policing of the patriarchy.