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Men and women are different. It makes sense to ask different questions. If I'm choosing which companies to invest millions of dollars in, you can bet I'll take

Men and women are different. It makes sense to ask different questions. If I'm choosing which companies to invest millions of dollars in, you can bet I'll take woman specific issues, such as pregnancy, into consideration. The idea of a universal, gender blind rule set is absurd to rational decision making.

jackmott 9y ago
Something you should keep in mind is that a man is also affected if he has a child. Available time, sleep quality, stress levels are all disrupted, and it affects our cognitive abilities to extreme degrees often times. So just be sure to discriminate against men who plan to have kids to some reasonable factor as you do women.
- hasenj 9y ago
  It's obviously not the same. A man does not physically get pregnant.
  - sidlls 9y ago
    What about the years (not weeks or even months) after pregnancy? Toddlers aren't hands-off.
  - nasalgoat 9y ago
    But I got just as little sleep, if not less, than my wife did, because I was the one getting up and changing my baby in the middle of the night. Please don't generalize.
Rotten194 9y ago
Did you read the article? It's about extensive bias in optimistic vs pessimistic questions and has nothing to do with pregnancy or 'gendered' issues.
- someonewhocar3s 9y ago
  It does not adjust for sample quality. Perhaps the women engaged radiated their insecurities, and potentially their insecurity about their gender. If there's anything a VC is wary of, than it's a wary rather than optimistic attitude. I have not personally met a competent computer scientist woman, I have met competent logicians, lawyers, and businesswomen. I cannot avoid being skeptic without positive evidence.