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Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by facepalm »

parennoob wrote: post #55
matt4077 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May be more necessary than usual – I got the feeling that women were overrepresented in the "Founder-does-something-terrible" articles, at least on HN. Some was certainly deserved, although I'm not sure about the proportionality of the 20th "No, seriously, Elizabeth Holmes is a terrible terrible person!" - article. Some was offensive, misogynistic, backwards bullshit that I can only hope is highly correlated with the…

> as does starting with something blatantly obvious (dropping the photo requirement for applicants and blinding the names are two common options in my country Unfortunately, very few efforts seem to focus on immediately applicable solutions like this that solve the problem (if there is one) fundamentally. None of the Big Tech companies for example (Google / Facebook / Apple / Microsoft come to mind) currently do appl…

There has also been a study showing tech interviews went less favorable for women when their voices were masked as male voices.

As for "Girls Who Code" as PR - does it increase the popularity of these firms with male coders, too? My personal impression with Google is that they are not interested in hiring male coders anymore...

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by jimmywanger »

> We recognize that there is a significant gender imbalance in technology professions, markedly larger than that of any other cognitive non-routine profession

Why is this gender imbalance receiving all of the attention, as opposed to teaching and nursing, both of which are heavily skewed towards the opposite gender imbalance?

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by awt »

Would you say men have plenty of representation in K-12 education? Or in University, where more women than men attend? Or white men in the NBA? What about men being overrepresened in successful suicide attempts?

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by ori_b »

tptacek wrote: post #53
cbeach wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any evidence to suggest women are encouraged into our industry by this kind of tokenisation? And not discouraged by it?

I don't accept the premise of your question, that noting female founders in the tech industry is "tokenization". A token is someone selected in order to represent a cohort of people. But that's not what this list is: presumably any successful female founder would be on it.

> But that's not what this list is: presumably any successful female founder would be on it.

Is your premise is that female founders are a fundamentally separate group from founders in general?

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by throwaway4891a »

jimmywanger wrote: post #62

> We recognize that there is a significant gender imbalance in technology professions, markedly larger than that of any other cognitive non-routine profession Why is this gender imbalance receiving all of the attention, as opposed to teaching and nursing, both of which are heavily skewed towards the opposite gender imbalance?

TC rarely covers non-tech fields unless there's a tech aspect.

Plus, we're talking about TC.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by 234dd57d2c8db »

I'm waiting for the list of successful female garbage collectors and sewer technicians.

There's a place gender balance is even worse, virtually _100%_ men, but I don't see any big pushes to diversify those fields. Those two jobs also make a surprising amount of $$$ too.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by [deleted] »

morgante wrote: post #48
dominotw wrote: post #2

Links to the lists 1. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/18-more-female-founders-whove... 2. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/21-female-founders-who-killed... I looked up people from first list on linkedin to see what path they took to end up there. One commonality that immediately obvious is studying at Ivy league/private university. Perhaps a more inspiring new year list would have been " where you are born doesn't seal…

I'm sick of hearing this meme that Ivy league universities automatically mean you were born wealthy. Top universities have, by far, the most generous financial aid you can get out there.

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Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by rubicon33 »

morgante wrote: post #48
dominotw wrote: post #2

Links to the lists 1. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/18-more-female-founders-whove... 2. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/21-female-founders-who-killed... I looked up people from first list on linkedin to see what path they took to end up there. One commonality that immediately obvious is studying at Ivy league/private university. Perhaps a more inspiring new year list would have been " where you are born doesn't seal…

I'm sick of hearing this meme that Ivy league universities automatically mean you were born wealthy. Top universities have, by far, the most generous financial aid you can get out there.

I'm really skeptical that the financial aid you speak of is as accessible as you think it is.

Speaking completely anecdotally, someone very close to me chose not to go to Stanford, simply because her family couldn't afford it. And that was with a scholarship.

I've never asked her about financial aid, and if she investigated it. My guess is though that she fell into the category of middle class... aka, too rich to qualify for financial aid, too poor to afford $100K+ a year college.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by tomlock »

234dd57d2c8db wrote: post #66

I'm waiting for the list of successful female garbage collectors and sewer technicians. There's a place gender balance is even worse, virtually _100%_ men, but I don't see any big pushes to diversify those fields. Those two jobs also make a surprising amount of $$$ too.

Is there a ycombinator style site for sewer technicians you regularly check?

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by closeparen »

rubicon33 wrote: post #68
morgante wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sick of hearing this meme that Ivy league universities automatically mean you were born wealthy. Top universities have, by far, the most generous financial aid you can get out there.

I'm really skeptical that the financial aid you speak of is as accessible as you think it is. Speaking completely anecdotally, someone very close to me chose not to go to Stanford, simply because her family couldn't afford it. And that was with a scholarship. I've never asked her about financial aid, and if she investigated it. My guess is though that she fell into the category of middle class... aka, too rich to qua…

Upper middle class, maybe. This can happen when your household income is $200k. Not $55k (national median) and certainly not below.

Higher ed financial aid leaves middle-upper middle class kids in a tough spot because their parents don't feel like they have income to spare, but the financial aid office doesn't feel they need charity. But this does not really happen to socioeconomically disadvantaged children, only those too far into the upper middle class.

The line where this happens is a lower income in mediocre private schools, and a higher income on good ones.

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