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I do give them the benefit of the doubt, everyone deserves that. The reason I'm inclined to believe the allegations is that they're relatively mild, which makes
by staunch 14y ago
I do give them the benefit of the doubt, everyone deserves that. The reason I'm inclined to believe the allegations is that they're relatively mild, which makes them far more believable to mind mind.
I seriously doubt there was real premeditated or conspiratorial sexism on be half of the top KPCB guys, but I wouldn't be surprised at all that they unconsciously favored men for promotions/compensation. Even women have trouble not favoring men in that way, in my experience.
So even if KPCB loses the court case I wouldn't think much less of them. They're just humans at the mercy of their biases, doing their best to fight them, and sometimes failing.
- Loic 14y agoMy wife is working in a big corporation. What you describe is a fundamental problem at all the levels which is very hard to overcome. The company is doing regular training for the people hiring just to show them how they effectively discriminate event without claiming and having the feeling they are not. This is because you naturally hire and promote people like you. This comes from the evolution of mankind where we trust more people like us and we are resistant to change. You had a good worker, white and a man, you naturally try to hire "the same" if you need to replace him even if a black woman could do the same or even better. You cannot escape it easily, you need to constantly try hard not to discriminate.