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[I'm a female] I'm currently at a point where I feel like I've saved a fair amount of money and could support myself for a while without a steady source of income (with a a relatively inexpensive lifestyle- no car, no house, no family), but I do sometimes worry that I will accidentally get pregnant (shit happens) and what appeared like a substantial amount of savings for one person won't be enough for two. Anyway, so…
In the end I think women are quite entrepreneurial and can make the sacrifices, tradeoffs, and decisions necessary to succeed. I just don't think the type of businesses that most women are interested in creating are technology in nature.
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"No, no conspiracy, just conventions that we would probably do better without but which are deeply ingrained in society. .. So deep that we're no longer even aware of them." This is so silly. If that was true, gays would be executed/exiled, interracial marriages remain banned, slaves would continue to serve the masters, etc.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but on the off chance that you are not that describes the situation in fairly large chunks of the world.
[I'm a female] I'm currently at a point where I feel like I've saved a fair amount of money and could support myself for a while without a steady source of income (with a a relatively inexpensive lifestyle- no car, no house, no family), but I do sometimes worry that I will accidentally get pregnant (shit happens) and what appeared like a substantial amount of savings for one person won't be enough for two. Anyway, so…
I'm curious, why is there a fear of pregnancy?
Is this a genuine question?
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but on the off chance that you are not that describes the situation in fairly large chunks of the world.
Are we discussing USA if not the western world? This was assumed from the author's article of why women are given as much chance as men to be a founder yet prefer not to (She's promoting a female founder meetup in NYC).
The rest of the world is more or less lucky with all of those depending on the location and the crib that you were born in to.
So, even if we limit our view to the US then it's not all roses, and the female-male wage gap is still very much present.
some links to underscore these points:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disp...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_State...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States
Really, we're far from there, on paper everybody is equal but in real life that's absolutely not true, not even close, and gender equality in founders is just a reflection of gender equality issues earlier in life, in the educational system and in society in general.
There is a breed of female founder that lives to pose for cameras and magazine covers and to be mentioned in Valleywag. But more common are those who are happy to grow their companies to a certain point that is manageable enough. They don't want or get a lot of attention, which makes them seem more rare than they actually are.
Maybe the core issue is that females don't tend to form the kind of companies that tend to get really big really fast. Each iteration of a growing company changes the social / cultural dynamic of a company, too; these are areas which females tend to treat with more care.
I wonder if this is a fluke, or a result of the massive influx of women into greentech?
Many women don't want to make the time investment strategy/banking/startups require as taking a job as accountant, HR manager or university researcher leaves more time to invest in finding a suitable mate and get children.
IMO in Western culture we go overboard in trying to equalize everything. Many woman seek men earning more than them, and men like being the provider.
I wonder if this is more a symptom of having few women in the field of computer science / software engineering [1] than a lack of women who want to be founders [2]. It isn't too surprising when you consider only a small percentage of people in computer science decide to become founders, and then a small percentage of that pool ends up being women. [1] I am assuming that most people in startups are computer science ty…
Women -- girls -- with talent and potential mostly leave the STEM track when they're twelve to fifteen years old. Looking for the cause of different quantities of company founders in factors that affect thirty-year-olds isn't going to address the biggest difference.