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Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by jacquesm on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:36AM (#23610912)
This is much more of a thing in the United States than elsewhere in the world.
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by jwr on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:56AM (#23611049)
Definitely. In most of Europe things are more normal: it's normal for women to be prime ministers or presidents, it's OK to breastfeed your child in public, and at least among my programmer peers, women are regarded with more respect than men (since there are so few of them in IT).

In Poland, the catholic church and the "conservatives" still work hard at enforcing the old barbaric gender stereotypes, but they get little traction among the educated population.

Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by WesolyKubeczek on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:20AM (#23611216)
In Poland sexism in IT is still strong among some academic types. Not only sexism, but bags of other prejudices as well. I’d call it the „frustrated elitism syndrome”.
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by jwr on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:32AM (#23612545)
Really? I have no experience with academia, but in commercial settings I don't see any of it.
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by skocznymroczny on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:02AM (#23612750)
I don't really understand why the need to single out Poland. In recent history Poland had a transgender MP, openly gay MP and three female prime ministers. Breastfeeding in public isn't a taboo in Poland either.
Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by jwr on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:25AM (#23613597)
Oh, that's just because I happen to live in Poland (most of the time) and I'm very annoyed by these attempts to "put women in their place" (usually, the kitchen, and with child-bearing duties).

What I meant is that things are good, but the church and conservatives are hard at work, trying to make them worse.

Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by jacquesm on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:15AM (#23625022)
It is a generational issue. The older generation - which also is the one that is most easily influenced by the church due to pearly-gate anxiety syndrome - is quite scared of further modernization and obviously the church is scared shitless of losing its power base.

This sort of thing changes one funeral at the time. Fortunately younger people in Poland tend to be considerably smarter about such things than their parents ever were, though there are of course also still people in that generation that are dominated by the church.

Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by lookupthere on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:08AM (#23613371)
Definitely. Most of Sub-Saharan Africa as well doesn't have an issue with breastfeeding at all.

The strange thing for me in the US is that the left doesn't seem bothered by it. They are usually all up to point out arbitrary social constructs but this isn't an issue for them? Am I missing something?

Re:Reflections on Being a Female Founder by dsr_ on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:21AM (#23614238)
Breastfeeding has two major single-issue advocacy groups. The first is La Leche League, founded in Chicago in 1956. It has no particular political stance. The second is Breastfeeding USA, founded in 2010. It has a very slightly liberal stance.

My mother was an LLL Leader for 35 years, and is a founding member of Breastfeeding USA.