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Have you seen the show? Because the female characters, especially after S1, are the primary drivers of the series.
by xref 6y ago
Have you seen the show? Because the female characters, especially after S1, are the primary drivers of the series.
- nomdep 6y agoExactly. But in this syllabus they are the victims of the evil men.
- prepend 6y agoI think this was a positive take trying to say how it could have been or should have been. The reality I witnessed was that all these positions were held by men, usually white and Asian. So the series paints a rosey picture where there is struggle for gender parity. This seems really rare and so the story isn’t realistic in this sense. But this is part of the story and the characters I think are unique fiction rather than trying to be representative. Of course there were many awesome female programmers and engineers, just they were by far rarer than their male counterparts. Thus there’s Jobs+Woz, Gates+Allen, Brin+Page and no MacMillan+Howe.
- TimPC 6y agoClassifying awesome engineer = founding engineer of company seems to be a category error. It might be the case that female engineers are even more absent using this metric due to biases in venture capital and different risk taking preferences.
- prepend 6y agoIt might be. I can only speak from my experiences and what I know directly having worked with the few founders and companies I worked with. I would love to know the answer, but I think this is one of those contrafactuals that I’ll never know and don’t have much time to postulate.