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Excerpt from the linked article: ------ At one point, the founder was introduced via email to the head of a VC firm and got a reply from one of his associates. “We were given explicit advice that if we were introduced to a venture partner in a certain way and they passed us off to an associate, we were supposed to respond with, ‘Thanks so much. I’d love to talk, but I’m heads down on a product right now and I’m only able to talk to people with decision-making ability,’” she says. She composed a reply saying as much. Before sending, she showed it to five different male friends who were also founders and they thought the tone was fine. But the response she got from the associate at the firm was shocking. “I got a massive slap on the wrist,” she says. “The tone of the response I received was, ‘Don’t get too big for your britches, little girl.’ And it happened a second time as well.” When she showed the reply to the male founders, they were amazed by the brazenness of the email. They had never received anything similar in tone and couldn’t understand why the response was so cold and angry. ------

Another excerpt: ------ Money men look for people who are a younger, better, smarter version of themselves. It's human nature. The typical funder is an old, straight, white male, hence the typical fund-receiver is a young, straight, white, male. ------

There's a hierarchy of (generally unintentional) discrimination. In practice, there's a lot more discrimination when meeting face-to-face than when just confronted with names - but even in controlled conditions like the above math example, there tends to be a massive amount of bias against women in technical fields. And it's not a matter of perspectives.

Did you actually read the article? Founders aren't being judged in the same way, due to their gender.

You see the same thing in academia: give some professional mathematicians some identical papers, but randomly with male or female names on them, and they'll rate the ones with male names more highly than their peers who are given an identical paper with a female name. Unfortunately, both male and female mathematicians bias their judgement in the same way, so simply having more female mathematicians (or investors) goes less far than one might think.

a) It needs an 'OR' operator. If I enter from as 'Western Europe', I'm told it's too broad, which is ok - but I'd like to be able to choose a few convenient starting places rather than do a separate search for each. (To those who say a random starting location is a bad idea: actually, in Europe, it's a pretty good one. Depending on my destination, I've found it useful to travel up to 8 hours by train to catch a decent flight, and I'd consider taking a low-cost flight pretty much anywhere in the continent for a particularly fun-looking and decently-priced flight to far enough away...)

b) It needs better data. http://www.ltur.com/de/flug.htm?omnin=TopNavi-FL currently would let me get from Brussels to Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) for 411 Euros if I left tomorrow. Adioso starts at 490, and the second cheapest is already over 1000.

It's nifty; if it gets better data and a bit more flexibility, I could see using it. I travel a lot and have a pretty flexible schedule. For now, I'll be sticking with edreams, easyjet, etc.