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Do you have any evidence to suggest women are encouraged into our industry by this kind of tokenisation? And not discouraged by it?
by cbeach 10y ago
Do you have any evidence to suggest women are encouraged into our industry by this kind of tokenisation? And not discouraged by it?
- tptacek 10y agoI 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.
- ori_b 10y ago> 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?
- statictype 10y agoHis question is still valid if you remove that word and replace it with something more accurate. FWIW, I think it's a great idea and a good way to encourage women to join a field that they perceive as not being welcoming to them but I don't have any hard data to support this (and don't think I need any)