Re: [Edu-sig] more thoughts on diversity...

2015-02-04 Thread kirby urner
Yikes my "formatting" above sure came out ugly in the archive: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2015-February/011196.html Pardon my line lengths people! Maybe some of those "re-archivers" (mirrors of edu-sig) will make it look prettier, sigh. Kirby _

Re: [Edu-sig] more thoughts on diversity...

2015-02-04 Thread kirby urner
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: << ... >> > > maybe this was for diversity, not edu-sig Kirby? > > Laura > > Good points Laura. I know from looking over dad's shoulder when he worked for Egyptian Ministry of Planning, that bids would come from firms, not individuals, b

Re: [Edu-sig] more thoughts on diversity...

2015-02-04 Thread Laura Creighton
There is an important number that is being missed here. What percentage of pitches do VCs hear from women? If 2% of the number of pitches that the VC's hear are from women, and 10% of the number that they fund are from women , then women are more likely to be funded than men --- and to get 50/50