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>> 7) don't discriminate based on gender or sexual preference, even though it may be legal to do so in your locality do you feel like this is a big problem in
by r4vik 14y ago
>> 7) don't discriminate based on gender or sexual preference, even though it may be legal to do so in your locality
do you feel like this is a big problem in the startup world?
- andrewljohnson 14y agoCertainly... if not in who gets hired, then at least in what hires get paid.
- pervycreeper 14y agoWould you care to provide some evidence for this claim?
- drivebyacct2 14y agoFor what claim? Unless you're a WASP, you know that discrimination still exists. I don't see why startups would be automatically immune to this until they have explicit policies in place ensuring proper equal treatment.
- pervycreeper 14y agoParent implied that female startup hires get paid less than their male counterparts. This is not something that can be proved "a priori", regardless of the presence of discrimination (or "WASPS") in the world.
- krickle 14y agoFor the US, I thought the converse was directly provable with empirical data. Don't you have a far sronger argument than you are using?
- freditup 14y agoI was unaware that Catholics get paid less than Protestants in the startup world. More on point, our cultural norms are a little funky. I don't feel really that their should be any degree at a university where there are 20x the number of male students than female students. However, in the computer science world, this is probably the case. This isn't from direct discrimination, but as I said, from cultural standards. Perhaps we should try to be more welcoming to women in the technology field in general.
- inopinatus 14y agoOne should do so irrespective of ethical imperatives. Failure to recognise and correct for your inherent biases (and we all have them; distrust anyone claiming otherwise) means missing out on segments of the talent pool, and so more fool you.