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Wednesday Google hosted a special edition of their annual "Demo Day" event featuring 11 early-stage startup companies founded by women from eight different countries. More than 450 women from 40 different counties applied for a spot, and the winner of the competition was Bridgit, a fast-growing Canadian company which provides a mobile communications platform for construction teams. Online voters also awarded the "Game Changer" title to KiChing, a startup that's actively addressing Mexico's unique e-commerce challenges. But all of the startups at Wednesday's event were already actively raising series-A funding, and "We aim to help connect them to mentors, access to capital, and shine a spotlight on their efforts," said Mary Grove, the director of Google for Entrepreneurs, addressing the Demo Day audience in San Francisco.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:39PM
How do you propose to eliminate structural discrimination?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:43PM
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:48PM
> Step 1: Stop confusing equality of outcome with equality of opportunity.
If you personally can't see the forces at work, then they don't exist.
Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @09:58PM
Exactly. We call that science. Either your observations are repeatable by anyone following your valid procedure or your conclusions are not valid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @10:10PM
Er no. That's a very reductivist definition of what science really is.
Actual science is about making hypotheses and testing them through observation. The number of science experiments, in any field, that are perfectly reproducible is quite small because the real world is analog and eliminating all co-factors is frequently impossible. Just try a biology experiment in the field.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @11:11PM
If your scientific study is not repeatable, then we may want to be cautious of the study. We certainly should be cautious of the conclusions of the study until there is overwhelming scientific consensus concerning it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @11:17PM
Which is exactly the case with respect to structural sources of gender inequality. Glad we could agree.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @11:34PM
Yours is a very grade school version of science: form a hypothesis, do an experiment, adjust hypothesis, rather, rinse, repeat. Science is much more than that, and much more exciting than that. Astronomers don't do science by your definition, and apparently field biologist don't either. Whole fields of science are done by observation instead of hypothesis forming.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @10:30PM
Insane Clown Affirmative Posse! I knew things were bad, but has it come to this?