<story><title>I&apos;m a woman CEO and it doesn&apos;t change anything</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/08/04/mathilde-collin-im-a-woman-ceo-and-it-doesnt-change-anything/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>facepalm</author><text>And we all know male founders are always taken serious from the start. No male founder ever had problems convincing their parents that they are on the right track. People the male founder meets are always convinced his startup is the next Google.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but I think your observations are just confirmation bias.</text></item><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Of course there are some drawbacks of being a female CEO. When you’re a woman in charge, you do have to work a bit more to get credibility and have people listen to you...&lt;p&gt;The way my company&amp;#x27;s CEO, who is also female, put it: &amp;quot;when you&amp;#x27;re a woman, people in business don&amp;#x27;t take you seriously &lt;i&gt;until&lt;/i&gt; you are successful.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a guy, but I see this phenomenon everyday when observing the way my female coworkers are treated by (male) managers. The good-looking ones have it worst, in my opinion: while their looks may give them an advantage in certain situations, they often have to work extra hard to get noticed, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; when they do become successful, their success is attributed to their looks instead of their intelligence and hard work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onewaystreet</author><text>Male founders are never not taken seriously &lt;i&gt;because they are male&lt;/i&gt;. That&amp;#x27;s the difference.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m a woman CEO and it doesn&apos;t change anything</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/08/04/mathilde-collin-im-a-woman-ceo-and-it-doesnt-change-anything/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>facepalm</author><text>And we all know male founders are always taken serious from the start. No male founder ever had problems convincing their parents that they are on the right track. People the male founder meets are always convinced his startup is the next Google.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but I think your observations are just confirmation bias.</text></item><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Of course there are some drawbacks of being a female CEO. When you’re a woman in charge, you do have to work a bit more to get credibility and have people listen to you...&lt;p&gt;The way my company&amp;#x27;s CEO, who is also female, put it: &amp;quot;when you&amp;#x27;re a woman, people in business don&amp;#x27;t take you seriously &lt;i&gt;until&lt;/i&gt; you are successful.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a guy, but I see this phenomenon everyday when observing the way my female coworkers are treated by (male) managers. The good-looking ones have it worst, in my opinion: while their looks may give them an advantage in certain situations, they often have to work extra hard to get noticed, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; when they do become successful, their success is attributed to their looks instead of their intelligence and hard work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genericuser</author><text>Those are issues stemming from being a founder, and possibly your parents knowing your fall back plan either doesn&amp;#x27;t exist, or is to move back in with them.&lt;p&gt;Those are not issues stemming from your identity as a person.  Other groups of people, in this case women, have issues where people are utterly dismissive simply because of their membership in that group.&lt;p&gt;The challenge this adds on top of normal founder challenges is orders of magnitude greater than any challenge added to founder challenges by being yet another white male founder.</text></comment>