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Me too, but at a certain point when you are established in a way, you want to fly a small flag just to say "hey look, it's possible!" to other women. When I wa
by silencio 18y ago
Me too, but at a certain point when you are established in a way, you want to fly a small flag just to say "hey look, it's possible!" to other women.
When I was wee (oh god, I'm getting old?! but I'm only 20!) I was put off by how many men there were and how weird it was to be the only girl in my entire CS classes, and now I think I'm over most of it (except for the really hurtful/disgusting discrimination, not limited to tech or gender). However, I occasionally meet another woman or some girl barely a few years younger who was put off by gender discrimination in tech (in general, not just startups) permanently or was on the verge of doing so, and I try to get them interested again in one way or another by mentoring in a way. I think in that aspect it's worthwhile to attempt that at least. All the women I talk to about this have found it helpful to know that there are other women in the industry that have been successful and that not everyone is so rude.
- jlees 18y agoI wonder if there'll ever really be a way to mentor/help out women in tech without drawing attention to the gender statistics. I totally agree that helping others get interested when they are on the verge of being put off is a positive thing. But I still have this whole aversion to making us "special" and thus exacerbating the attitudes. Ho hum.