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It sort of annoys me how the article keeps talking about a gender problem in "tech" and yet I see no actual mention of anyone technical in the entire article (o
by orclev 12y ago
It sort of annoys me how the article keeps talking about a gender problem in "tech" and yet I see no actual mention of anyone technical in the entire article (other than at least some of the people pitching). The article should have been called the gender problem in venture capital. A angel investor or a VC is not someone in tech, they're first and foremost all about business, just because what your pitching is technical doesn't automatically transform the situation into a technical one, it's still business.
My guess is it's a lot harder to pitch a story about business people discriminating against women (classic glass ceiling story), than it is the current fad of lambasting the tech sector as being misogynistic.
Edit: This may have come off as more critical of the article than I intended. The article is good and does have a point, it just annoys me that it makes it sound like tech is to blame when this is really just a facet of the existing misogyny in business. Change all the occurrences of "tech" with "venture capital" in the article and I'd have no problem with it.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoVCs are, to a significant extent, the gatekeepers who decide who gets a chance to succeed in tech. Their policies may not dictate tech policies in general, but they certainly have a real influence on them.