Re:Female founders who've had a great 2016
by tptacek on Monday December 26, 2016 @07:59PM
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I don't accept the premise of your question, that noting female founders in the tech industry is "tokenization". A token is someone selected in order to represent a cohort of people. But that's not what this list is: presumably any successful female founder would be on it.
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Re:Female founders who've had a great 2016
by ori_b on Monday December 26, 2016 @08:23PM
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> But that's not what this list is: presumably any successful female founder would be on it.
Is your premise is that female founders are a fundamentally separate group from founders in general?
Re:Female founders who've had a great 2016
by statictype on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:10AM
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His question is still valid if you remove that word and replace it with something more accurate.
FWIW, I think it's a great idea and a good way to encourage women to join a field that they perceive as not being welcoming to them but I don't have any hard data to support this (and don't think I need any)