Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? - NYTimes.com
CANDACE FLEMING’S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard, a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a small software company.
But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that it didn’t matter that she didn’t have business cards, because all they would say was “Mom.”
No, it gets better.
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In 2010, no less. Shoot me now.
What Doreen said! sigh.
[Toby Stuart, a Harvard Business School professor] says that some men are reluctant to invest in women’s start-ups because “there are enough things that can go wrong with a high-risk, early-stage venture that if you’re worried about any interpersonal dynamic issues, why not do a deal that takes that out of the equation?”
Oh, sweet; I didn’t know men never had interpersonal dynamic issues. That’s awesome! Go you guys! …
Many are pushed to pursue supervisory and management jobs instead of “individual contributor” jobs involving deep technical expertise…
What I really enjoyed about being a manager, apart from bullshit-filtering for my team (unexpectedly satisfying!), is that I worked. I had bugs to fix and templates to build and problems to solve, on top of the delegation and performance reviews and hiring. Loved it.
