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Startups run on long hours and heroic efforts. That selects against women who are time sensitive due to caretaking duties. Even if a woman doesn't have a child,
by iteria 3y ago
Startups run on long hours and heroic efforts. That selects against women who are time sensitive due to caretaking duties. Even if a woman doesn't have a child, they're often still time constrained by other obligations to family.
Minorities, though I have no idea. Unless they mean there's a bias towards prestige degrees? Then sure.
- api 3y agoIt's interesting seeing a lot of people from tech culture recently freaking out over birth rates, led by characters like Elon Musk. Yet at the same time they insist on perpetuating an economy that is structurally hostile to reproduction, especially among high achievers (and not just women). They're complaining about a social phenomenon they're driving. If the economy is a contest to time compress things as much as possible and demand as many working hours from everyone as possible, things like raising children get sacrificed. This is the simplest explanation for the extraordinarily low birth rates in some countries like South Korea that have normalized insanely demanding work cultures.
- EchoChamberMan 3y agoThey want to have their cake, and eat it too.
- elektrontamer 3y ago> Even if a woman doesn't have a child, they're often still time constrained by other obligations to family. How is that the would-be investors problem? Can we say the industry is rife with misogyny like the author is implying here?