Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs

Re:Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coerci... by AnarchoYeasty on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:23PM (#18224445)

While that statement isn't necessarily true, I would argue that most men do act inappropriately towards women. The problem is most men don't see what they are doing as wrong. What they consider flirting is often harassment. So most men aren't rapists, most men most likely do act inappropriately towards women.

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Re:Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coerci... by TomVDB on Monday October 15, 2018 @08:29PM (#18225391)

Now that’s a claim for which I would like to see more proof.

Because if most men would do this (and most implies: a majority of them), then even the current deluge of reports would be nothing compared to what you’d expect it to be.

I’ve have asked female colleagues about this and while they did complain about sexism, it was always isolated cases. Not most men.

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Re:Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coerci... by erikpukinskis on Monday October 15, 2018 @08:34PM (#18225419)

The current volume of reports is almost certainly a small fraction of the actual occcurrences.

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Re:Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coerci... by TomVDB on Monday October 15, 2018 @09:16PM (#18225633)

Would the volume be much higher than the numbers that are reported by surveys like this one, in which women are asked about it explicitly? If so, why?

Of all the respondents, 20% report sexual harassment of some sort. That’s a very high number. There is no reason to doubt its veracity.

But if 50%+ of all men were like that, you’d expect this number to be way higher.

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Re:Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coerci... by erikpukinskis on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:24AM (#18226494)

Studies show that something like 50% of men are like that when they know they won’t be caught. And the number goes way up for men who have consumed alcohol.

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Re:Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coerci... by TomVDB on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:21AM (#18226781)

That's a start. I'd be most interested to see a reference to one of those studies.

Google is letting me down on that.

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Re:Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coerci... by bigbluedots on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:16PM (#18230583)

This is an extraordinary claim to make without any extraordinary evidence being provided. How do you know?

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