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I think this is a case of unfortunate wording that leaves the wrong impression. My take on that "perk" is that the meaning that was intended is something like:
by metaphorm 13y ago
I think this is a case of unfortunate wording that leaves the wrong impression. My take on that "perk" is that the meaning that was intended is something like: "we have a gender diverse work place and have hired 4 awesome woman engineers! this is a great perk because these women kick ass and its a privilege to work with them."
but of course, those words weren't used. they probably should have been rather than the words that did appear.
- llamataboot 13y agoBased on the non-apology (where this could have been clarified) and the comments on news articles and elsewhere, I really don't think this is the case, or it could have been clarified and apologized for. Also, people that put women programmers in lists of "tempting perks" and then when called out on misogyny say, "but dudes, I have a wife and daughter!" doesn't exactly give me much room to really believe that you are committed enough to addressing the problem of sexism in tech enough that you would write "we have a gender-diverse and multinational workplace!" in the same place where you are talking about beer-at-your-desk
- sp332 13y agoHe's a non-technical cofounder. He probably isn't steeped in the troubles of gender in tech.
- prakashk 13y ago> My take on that "perk" is that the meaning that was intended is something like: "we have a gender diverse work place and have hired 4 awesome woman engineers! [...]" Based on the comments made ([1] and [2]), that doesn't seem to be the case. The company doesn't seem to have any developers yet. [1] http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2013-July/009136.html http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2013-July/0091... [2] http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/07/women-offered-perks-job-ad#comment-964234122 http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/07/women-offered-...