YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women In Tech

Posted by solipsist on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:03PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/yc-co-founder-jessica-livingston-on-the-dearth-of-women-in-tech-and-some-steps-to-fix-it/

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Re:YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women I... by larrik on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:53PM (#2146376)

Perhaps the Tech industry needs women more than women need the Tech industry.

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Re:YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women I... by TimLangley on Thursday January 27, 2011 @02:33AM (#2147000)

Slightly confused

Jessica's article is excellent but I don't see the relevance of her article to women

The comments that she makes Save money, Learn about start-ups, etc... are just as valid for women as for men

Is this (dearth of women) really the right question to be asking or should it be about the relative lack of start-ups (/students starting start-ups) and how the education system (in it's widest sense) should react?

Sorry Jessica - excellent article - but I'm not sure it got to the point

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Re:YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women I... by chrisaycock on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:41PM (#2146348)

This issue isn't limited to entrepreneurship; there's a dearth of women who study computer science in school.

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Re:YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women I... by gsivil on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @10:27PM (#2146439)

For a vivid discussion on the blog post by Jessica Livingston see also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2144956

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Re:YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women I... by gaius on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:19AM (#2147410)

If someone in your IT department is actually good, befriend them

With that attitude, you aren't likely to make many friends in IT.

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