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'“In fact, we just hired a young woman from Stanford who’s every bit as good as her peers,” Sequoia Capital investor Mike Moritz said in an interview with Bloom
by panglott 11y ago
'“In fact, we just hired a young woman from Stanford who’s every bit as good as her peers,” Sequoia Capital investor Mike Moritz said in an interview with Bloomberg, titled Sequoia’s Moritz: Looking for Women to Be Partners. “And if there are more like her, we’ll hire them. What we’re not prepared to do, is to lower our standards.”'
Pro tip: don't brag about how great you are at diversity by starting from the assumption that women are inferior.
- Spivak 11y agoI honestly didn't read that into what he said, am I missing some context that alludes to this meaning? It seems like he's trying to call out those people who would demand he hire a less qualified woman simply because of her sex. Isn't holding the belief that there exist qualified women putting them on equal standing? And then because there are qualified women wouldn't hiring without concern for sex the fairest hiring method? If he believed that women were inferior and wanted to promote diversity then wouldn't he would be making the exact opposite claim? If he truly holds the beliefs he claims to in the quote then the problem of diversity could be solved at the educational level by encouraging more women to go into tech. Assuming merit is uniformly distributed throughout society, if 10% of your applicants are qualified but 90% of your applicants are men then you would expect your staff to be 90% men assuming no bias whatsoever.
- panglott 11y agoMostly I think it's simply a boneheaded comment. Because it implies that hiring women means lowering your standards, except for a few exceptional individuals.