I’m afraid that women may fall into the trap of thinking that it is harder than it actually is and thus approach it with an expectation that they can only scratch the surface and cannot go deeper. By Jane Wang (Hacker, Hacker School) Why you ask? David Albert, a co-founder at Hacker School, a program [...]
Posts Tagged "Meritocracy"
Debunking The Myth Of Meritocracy In Business For Women
June 3, 2012 – 8:00 am
Men in merit-based organizations received higher bonuses than women, despite identical job performance evaluations. This bias did not surface in organizations that did not emphasize merit. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics) Imagine a business environment where the best performers garner the highest wages and receive the most appropriate promotions. Sounds like your average, everyday [...]
YouNoodle Co-Founder And CEO Rebeca Hwang On Meritocracy
April 3, 2012 – 7:00 am
Rebeca addresses the advantages of gender diversity in a startup. By Beth Pitts (Editor, TheNextWomen) Rebeca Hwang is a co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based startup, YouNoodle, which focuses on helping companies and governments engage with communities of entrepreneurs and innovators for open innovation and co-creation processes. Currently, YouNoodle’s technology platform, Podium, helps power [...]
Racism and Meritocracy (Engineers Don’t Blog)
November 20, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) It was never my intention to write about racism and meritocracy. Mainly, because I hate “talk” and prefer to “do”. Not saying that “talk” and discussion isn’t helpful, but its never been my thing, I “do”. So it slightly pains me to add to the “talk” with another blog [...]
Racism and Meritocracy
November 19, 2011 – 6:00 pm
By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says: “All I see is white men. Therefore, people like Michael Arrington must [...]
(Video) Why Your Startup Team Needs Diversity — in Race, Financial Background and Gender
November 7, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Jolie O’Dell (Writer, VentureBeat) The shopworn adage “It takes all kinds of people to make a world” is never more controversial than when applied to technology startups. “It takes all kinds of people to make a product” is much less accepted; diversity often gets short shrift when meritocracy is a supposed ideal and both [...]
Facebook’s First Female Engineer: “It Was Difficult to Break into the Boys’ Club”
September 28, 2011 – 5:30 am
Ruchi Sanghvi was an engineer at Facebook for five years, and was the only woman who was an original member of the team. Now she runs her own company, Cove. She discusses the difficulties and, ultimately, the rewards of being a woman in the tech industry. When Ruchi Sanghvi arrived for her first job interview at [...]
VC Rebuttal to Bindu Reddy’s post on TechCrunch: “I Don’t Want To Be A Diversity Candidate”
July 28, 2011 – 5:59 am
By Freada Kapor Klein (Venture Partner, Kapor Capital) A few days ago, TechCrunch ran a piece by Bindu Reddy bemoaning the fact that when raising money as a CEO of a start-up, someone wanted to invest in her in part because she’s a woman. Bindu stated: “However, they don’t realize that by calling out someone’s [...]
