How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men

Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by ladelfa on Friday January 13, 2017 @05:51PM (#13395511)

Thought this was all great until I got to their company photo. Guess diversity at Lever doesn't apply to age. :-/

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by WildUtah on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:21PM (#13396473)

The staff photo versus America:

    100% under forty. (USA is 50% over 40)
    95% white and Asian.
    <5% Latino and black. (USA and Bay Area are >33%)
    <5% overweight and obese (USA is 40% overweight and obese)
    21% duckface (0% of USA finds duckface appealing)

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by user5994461 on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:41AM (#13398311)

Organization with noone over 3X years old => They pay too poorly and/or have terrible life balance to get any interest from experienced people.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by jessaustin on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:07PM (#13396798)

Speak for yourself on that last one, buster.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by oh_sigh on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:24PM (#13395695)

Yes....it sort of reminds me of the HuffPo tweet about a boardroom full of women...completely neglecting that 95+% of them were white women(upon visual inspection).

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by thraway2016 on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:08PM (#13395927)

The HuffPo staff is not 95% white, by any stretch of imagination or categorization. Only if Ashkenazi are a subset of "white".

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by WildUtah on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:16PM (#13396451)

1. "Ashkenazi are…"? 'Ashkenazim' is the plural; 'Ashkenazi' is singular.

2. Everyone except Christian Identity white nationalists considers Ashkenazim white. DNA lineage studies strongly agree. The majority of Ashkenazi DNA is Polish and German followed by Italian.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by burkaman on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:19PM (#13395970)

In discussions involving racism, "white" means "white skin". Racism is usually about how people look, not genetics.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by dragonwriter on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:20PM (#13395982)

Racism is about the groups people are placed in by societal perceptions, in which looks are a major but not the sole factor.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by morgante on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:36AM (#13397825)

Sure, and everyone besides hard core white supremacists considers Ashkenazim to be white. I've hung out with plenty of blatant racists who treated me, as a Jew, as part of their in-group.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by dllthomas on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:18PM (#13396457)

Which is not to say that Ashkenazi Jews are not typically considered "white" in mainstream American culture.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by oh_sigh on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:16PM (#13395963)

http://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-europea...

> The genetics suggest many of the founding Ashkenazi women were actually converts from local European populations.

Okay, even if they were over-represented in Ashkenazim, where were all the Latinos and blacks? 30% should be one of those two groups if you wanted to be proportionate to the US population, but it was definitely way lower than 30%(again, by visual inspection only).

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:47PM (#13396095)

In some contexts, Ashkenazi have been considered white.

Not that I'd argue for that.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by wott on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:13PM (#13396220)

Perhaps they were working while others were making faces for a stupid photo.

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