Why I'm sick to death of being a “woman in tech”

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9 points·joshsharp··5 comments

I guess it depends: One of the smartest "women in tech" I ever met told me that she loved being the only woman on our team. Why? because men (consistently) only cared about the results, not pecking order. Needless to say we loved her back: it is hard not to love people like her who are brilliant and meet us where we were.

That qualifier hurts, and you probably don't even notice how you're using it. You say she's one of the smartest women you know in tech, not one of the smartest people you know in tech. Does that mean you don't think she's comparable to men in tech who are better than mediocre?

That's one of the thousand papercuts that gradually bleed off so many women's will to pursue this career.

Late but for you or anyone who reads this later: how did you miss that I wrote "women in tech" in quotes? Furthermore, if you read a little closer do you notice another subtlety: she isn't the only one.

You seem to look for a reason to get offended. That isn't a good strategy if you are going to work with some of us. Otherwise we're quite ok and happily work with anybody as long as they stay technical instead of going off like you did above. ;-)

Women can be sexist also. To say men are more results driven and women are political was an incredibly sexist remark. It's the equivalent of a black person saying they prefer dining with white people because they don't like watermelon (and we know all black people love watermelon, riiiiight?).

Just because a woman says it doesn't mean it's feminist.

>The reason my startup failed was a combination of poor decisions on my behalf...

I can't tell if that's just an error of language or not. I'm guessing from the rest of the article that she meant to say her decisions and just phrased it awkwardly.

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