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Bias this, discrimination that, etc. etc. If female entrepreneurs are being overlooked and being shortchanged for their talents, someone go start a fund that s

Bias this, discrimination that, etc. etc. If female entrepreneurs are being overlooked and being shortchanged for their talents, someone go start a fund that seeks out such undervalued assets and prove it by investing in them and making a lot of money. Until you put a $ value on it, this is just hurt feelings. Go find the $ value and change it.

AntiImperialist 6y ago
It's the same dipshits who will never put their own money on female-founded businesses who will also downvote comments like yours to make themselves feel better about it. If such discrimination is happening and there is absolutely no substantial reason for it, creating a venture fund which only invests in women-founded businesses should perform better than the competition. Except who is going to put money in it? I can tell you who will not: these downvoting dipshits.
- cortesoft 6y ago
  I don’t put my money in a women only venture fund for the same reason I don’t put it in any other venture fund... I don’t have venture fund money.
- AltonWells 6y ago
  It’s insane how upset you get over people downvoting the shrugging off of idea that women should have better access to capital or have unfair standards. “OH iT SHoUlD PeRfoRM BetTer” There are people putting money directly into women owned and found businesses. MOSTLY women because they’ve experienced this bullshit and higher more unattainable standards. It’s a nascent movement a few years old with tiny drops of money comparative to the annual investment pool.
  - rmak 6y ago
    Equality is sexism if you are used to privileged treatment. Women are used to get there way in schools. You'd get higher marks just for being a girl. Female teachers mark down boys. They get their own spaces while male only spaces are shut down. Then when it comes to higher education women get almost all scholarships even when they are 60% of college gradates. When it comes to job opportunities you have affirmative action, female only quotas and so on. Teachers 'give higher marks to girls' https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 Research shows that teachers punish boys more harshly than girls for the same standard of misbehaviour. https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/same-behavior-problems-hinder-boys-more-than-girls/ https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/same-behavior-pro... The calculated grading system being used for this year's Leaving Certificate has been designed to ensure that overall girls will do better than boys https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/girls-to-do-better-than-boys-in-calculated-grade-leaving-cert-exams-as-gender-trends-will-be-built-into-results-39454619.html https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/girls-to-do-... 92 percent of sex-specific scholarships are reserved for women, study finds https://www.saveservices.org/2019/05/pr-widespread-sex-discrimination-found-in-college-scholarship-programs/ https://www.saveservices.org/2019/05/pr-widespread-sex-discr... Women receive full letter grade higher marks for similar essay compared to men. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-women-told-white-lies-men.html https://phys.org/news/2020-05-women-told-white-lies-men.html
    - newsgourmet 6y ago
      For those reasons, I think it is likely they have better odds with VC investors, too. It just depends on what data you pick to make a story.
AltonWells 6y ago
People have put a dollar value on it. There are funds specifically for women because this is a documented real problem. It’s more than hurt feelings it’s inequity and discrimination. It’s not “JuSt HUrT FeELiNgs”. SMH
- newsgourmet 6y ago
  I'd scrutinize the study more before jumping to conclusions. for starters, there may be few actual women affected by it, as few female founders tackle "male dominated industries". Another thing that stuck out to me immediately was the "venture quality" metric - apparently an evaluation by the Tech Crunch Disrupt competition? It seems possible that women got elevated scores there (as for example girls are known to get elevated grades in school), as no money is at stake for the judges, but the elevation bonus goes away once real investor money is at stake. Other factors might play into it, too (just as with the gender pay gap, which is not at all what it seems), but it takes more time to parse the paper. In any case, the suggestion to use the results to beat other investors by specializing in women seems sound. If you believe the study, why wouldn't you?
  - AltonWells 6y ago
    It's pretty well documented that women have difficulty accessing capital (and less women in VC). Nothing is ever non-nuance but here are a few high quality sources. https://hbr.org/2020/01/how-the-vc-pitch-process-is-failing-female-entrepreneurs https://hbr.org/2020/01/how-the-vc-pitch-process-is-failing-... https://news.crunchbase.com/news/special-report-eu-lags-behind-us-in-vc-gender-equality-albeit-with-signs-of-change/ https://news.crunchbase.com/news/special-report-eu-lags-behi...
    - rmak 6y ago
      It is hard to believe this when women are given female quotas and companies are forced to hire women.
      - AltonWells 6y ago

AntiImperialist 6y ago

It's the same dipshits who will never put their own money on female-founded businesses who will also downvote comments like yours to make themselves feel better about it. If such discrimination is happening and there is absolutely no substantial reason for it, creating a venture fund which only invests in women-founded businesses should perform better than the competition. Except who is going to put money in it? I can tell you who will not: these downvoting dipshits.

cortesoft 6y ago
I don’t put my money in a women only venture fund for the same reason I don’t put it in any other venture fund... I don’t have venture fund money.
AltonWells 6y ago
It’s insane how upset you get over people downvoting the shrugging off of idea that women should have better access to capital or have unfair standards. “OH iT SHoUlD PeRfoRM BetTer” There are people putting money directly into women owned and found businesses. MOSTLY women because they’ve experienced this bullshit and higher more unattainable standards. It’s a nascent movement a few years old with tiny drops of money comparative to the annual investment pool.
- rmak 6y ago
  Equality is sexism if you are used to privileged treatment. Women are used to get there way in schools. You'd get higher marks just for being a girl. Female teachers mark down boys. They get their own spaces while male only spaces are shut down. Then when it comes to higher education women get almost all scholarships even when they are 60% of college gradates. When it comes to job opportunities you have affirmative action, female only quotas and so on. Teachers 'give higher marks to girls' https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 Research shows that teachers punish boys more harshly than girls for the same standard of misbehaviour. https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/same-behavior-problems-hinder-boys-more-than-girls/ https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/same-behavior-pro... The calculated grading system being used for this year's Leaving Certificate has been designed to ensure that overall girls will do better than boys https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/girls-to-do-better-than-boys-in-calculated-grade-leaving-cert-exams-as-gender-trends-will-be-built-into-results-39454619.html https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/girls-to-do-... 92 percent of sex-specific scholarships are reserved for women, study finds https://www.saveservices.org/2019/05/pr-widespread-sex-discrimination-found-in-college-scholarship-programs/ https://www.saveservices.org/2019/05/pr-widespread-sex-discr... Women receive full letter grade higher marks for similar essay compared to men. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-women-told-white-lies-men.html https://phys.org/news/2020-05-women-told-white-lies-men.html
  - newsgourmet 6y ago
    For those reasons, I think it is likely they have better odds with VC investors, too. It just depends on what data you pick to make a story.

AltonWells 6y ago

People have put a dollar value on it. There are funds specifically for women because this is a documented real problem. It’s more than hurt feelings it’s inequity and discrimination. It’s not “JuSt HUrT FeELiNgs”. SMH

newsgourmet 6y ago
I'd scrutinize the study more before jumping to conclusions. for starters, there may be few actual women affected by it, as few female founders tackle "male dominated industries". Another thing that stuck out to me immediately was the "venture quality" metric - apparently an evaluation by the Tech Crunch Disrupt competition? It seems possible that women got elevated scores there (as for example girls are known to get elevated grades in school), as no money is at stake for the judges, but the elevation bonus goes away once real investor money is at stake. Other factors might play into it, too (just as with the gender pay gap, which is not at all what it seems), but it takes more time to parse the paper. In any case, the suggestion to use the results to beat other investors by specializing in women seems sound. If you believe the study, why wouldn't you?
- AltonWells 6y ago
  It's pretty well documented that women have difficulty accessing capital (and less women in VC). Nothing is ever non-nuance but here are a few high quality sources. https://hbr.org/2020/01/how-the-vc-pitch-process-is-failing-female-entrepreneurs https://hbr.org/2020/01/how-the-vc-pitch-process-is-failing-... https://news.crunchbase.com/news/special-report-eu-lags-behind-us-in-vc-gender-equality-albeit-with-signs-of-change/ https://news.crunchbase.com/news/special-report-eu-lags-behi...
  - rmak 6y ago
    It is hard to believe this when women are given female quotas and companies are forced to hire women.
    - AltonWells 6y ago