I'm a woman, and I want to be a founder. Please don't assume you know why.

Re:I'm a woman, and I want to be a founder. Please don't as... by dustingetz on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:59PM (#2333384)

"A young, but influential, entrepreneur I talked with remarked that I was probably “only interested in doing a startup to be supportive of my husband.” I was, to be frank, incredibly angry."

I'm not sure why she felt angry[1]. People judge, get over it; if a pattern of judgements becomes a problem, work on your credibility. I think reducing emotion at work has value in a lot of circumstances.

[1] or: "allowed herself to feel angry", which fundamentally reduces to "chose to feel angry" (edited in later)

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Re:I'm a woman, and I want to be a founder. Please don't as... by mediacrisis on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @03:14PM (#2333438)

I can understand her anger to a degree, provided the person she was talking to knew she was married (or anything about her home life, for that matter). It would be on another level entirely if it was an assumption based on sexism, but without knowing the full context of the conversation I suppose we'll never know.

As for "people judge, get over it", that is a sorry state of pragmatism. Not saying it isn't true, just a bit sad.

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