The gender wage gap in Silicon Valley – based on AngelList data
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#2> At that point I made a decision to change this by enforcing a new hiring rule. Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team
I stopped reading after this part!
Re: The gender wage gap in Silicon Valley – based on AngelList data
#3> At that point I made a decision to change this by enforcing a new hiring rule. Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team I stopped reading after this part!
If he had decided to give preference to (e.g.) Syrian refugees because he felt a sense of wanting to help, would you have the same response? If he gave preference to a veteran out of Patriotism or an ex-con out of a belief in "second chances" would you have the same reaction?
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#4Looks pretty compelling based on the graphs at the bottom. Seems like OP could lead with those or at least make a percentage right up at the top for those of us that need a TLDR instead of a play by play.
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#5> At that point I made a decision to change this by enforcing a new hiring rule. Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team I stopped reading after this part!
If he had decided to give preference to (e.g.) Syrian refugees because he felt a sense of wanting to help, would you have the same response? If he gave preference to a veteran out of Patriotism or an ex-con out of a belief in "second chances" would you have the same reaction?
Interesting argument. So you are equating being born the female sex the same as being a war time refugee, war veteran or ex-con? Could you explain that analogy a little better?
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#6Completely tangent, but I'm surprised ops and hardware are so low.
Re: The gender wage gap in Silicon Valley – based on AngelList data
#7> At that point I made a decision to change this by enforcing a new hiring rule. Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team I stopped reading after this part!
Then you really don't understand hiring women. Most women don't want to work at a place where they're the only woman. Or the workplace is ridiculously imbalanced in one direction. Even in large companies such as Amazon, women cluster into teams.
Not having women on your team usually points to a culture issue, and who wants to have a terrible work environment? It's another area where avoiding false positives is probably going to be better for you in the long run.
For instance, my wife moved to a new team that is 50℅ women, from a team where she was the only woman engineer. Her co-workers really didn't know how to interact with women. Complaining to HR would cause the team to assume it was her. When a co-worker did complain to HR, a large section of her team assumed it was her and made the workplace even less hospitable.
Plus from a business perspective if you can open your business to a pool of talent that isn't well catered to, you'll probably reap some long term benefit.
Re: The gender wage gap in Silicon Valley – based on AngelList data
#8> At that point I made a decision to change this by enforcing a new hiring rule. Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team I stopped reading after this part!
Sure, the author's worldview is twisted a little by politics, but I recommend skipping to the bottom, there's some substance there.
He has some interesting charts regarding how much salary is requested by people of different skill, experience, and gender.
Re: The gender wage gap in Silicon Valley – based on AngelList data
#9Completely tangent, but I'm surprised ops and hardware are so low.
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Re: The gender wage gap in Silicon Valley – based on AngelList data
#10> At that point I made a decision to change this by enforcing a new hiring rule. Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team I stopped reading after this part!
If he had decided to give preference to (e.g.) Syrian refugees because he felt a sense of wanting to help, would you have the same response? If he gave preference to a veteran out of Patriotism or an ex-con out of a belief in "second chances" would you have the same reaction?
It wasn't phrased that way though. If he did that, would he 'hire Syrian refugees until they represent 50% of the team'?