How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men
Women are incredibly valuable, but there isn&#x27;t anything inherently &quot;good&quot; about having an exactly even split M-F ratio. Is a company with 70% women and 30% men better than a 50%-50% split? What about the other way around? What about mostly men but a few women?<p>The obsession with having an even split is, ludicrous. Should every industry have an exactly even 50%-50% ratio? Why not? Why should it? I think we need more women in highly male-dominated fields like dock working. They&#x27;re good paying jobs, so why don&#x27;t we have more women?<p>Why are we always focusing on putting women in STEM and not focusing on getting women good jobs in general?<p>The men that don&#x27;t get jobs because of these new 50-50 splits, where do they work?<p>The question people aren&#x27;t asking is why this actually matters. The only answer I can see is to make sure women are getting good jobs. Women are clearly getting an education, since more of them are going to college than men, but are we focusing on good, well-paying jobs, or are we focusing on only the best jobs?<p>I&#x27;m sure this will get pc-d the hell out of. But I&#x27;m just concerned that we&#x27;re over-compensating. Paul Graham wrote a good article about &quot;What you can&#x27;t say&quot;. I think me saying this, even if it&#x27;s idiotic or something, is an example of something I &quot;can&#x27;t say&quot; in our society.<p>I support women, but I support men too.