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First thing that surprised me about the Female Founder’s Conference is that it was all women. I find this whole line of reasoning a little off, given the stats
by jlehman 13y ago
First thing that surprised me about the Female Founder’s Conference is that it was all women.
I find this whole line of reasoning a little off, given the stats mentioned in YC's blog here: http://blog.ycombinator.com/highlights-from-ycs-first-female-founders-conference http://blog.ycombinator.com/highlights-from-ycs-first-female...
The first paragraph mentions:
We’d originally planned to host the event at our office, which could fit about 150 attendees. 1,200 impressive applications later, we decided to move the event to the Computer History Museum where we could accommodate three times the people.
Given that all 450 accepted attendees were women, I can assume that some women were rejected. Would it have made sense to reject qualified women to this event in place of qualified men? Personally, I think not.