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Silicon Valley V.C. Firm Can’t Find Any Women
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/michael-moritz-sequoia-women-partners-techHere’s some news for all the many smart, driven, capable young women interested in working in technology: apparently, you don’t exist.
This may be difficult to hear: All of the science classes you took, the coding you learned, the schools you got into, and jobs you applied to? Apparently that’s not enough.
If it were enough, would Sir Michael Moritz be having such a terribly difficult time finding you? The longtime bastion of Silicon Valley, honorary knight, and chairman of venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital said he has been looking, hard, for you, but he can’t just make something out of nothing. He’s a knight, not a bloody magician. ...
There you have it. Silicon Valley’s gender-diversity problem has nothing to do with institutional biases or sexism or culture. It has to do with you, women, and your inability to meet the same standards set by your male peers. That’s why 82 percent of Google’s tech employees, 87 percent of Twitter’s, 84 percent of Facebook's, and 79 percent of Apple’s tech employees are men. It’s why men can land jobs by sending “bikini shots” from a “nudie calendar” and eventually become executives who brag about this in front of a crowd of industry leaders, but women graduating from top schools with engineering degrees struggle to find female mentors.
This may be difficult to hear: All of the science classes you took, the coding you learned, the schools you got into, and jobs you applied to? Apparently that’s not enough.
If it were enough, would Sir Michael Moritz be having such a terribly difficult time finding you? The longtime bastion of Silicon Valley, honorary knight, and chairman of venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital said he has been looking, hard, for you, but he can’t just make something out of nothing. He’s a knight, not a bloody magician. ...
There you have it. Silicon Valley’s gender-diversity problem has nothing to do with institutional biases or sexism or culture. It has to do with you, women, and your inability to meet the same standards set by your male peers. That’s why 82 percent of Google’s tech employees, 87 percent of Twitter’s, 84 percent of Facebook's, and 79 percent of Apple’s tech employees are men. It’s why men can land jobs by sending “bikini shots” from a “nudie calendar” and eventually become executives who brag about this in front of a crowd of industry leaders, but women graduating from top schools with engineering degrees struggle to find female mentors.
Is a remake of "Mars Needs Women" in the offing?!
