Comments on: Will the next Steve Jobs be a woman?

By: emdub

emdub — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:14:56 +0000

Great article! Definitely a topic that needs to be addressed more often. Highly recommend reading the book “Women Don’t Ask”, about societal pressures and standard behaviors of women that hold us back professionally.

By: jonavark

jonavark — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:36:38 +0000

My goodness. what a silly article. The next “steve Jobs” (sheesh) will be a capable, creative marketing genius able to charge more for their products than they are worth and make billions for their company while outsourcing as many jobs as possible from the US. Do you REALLY care what their gender is?

There are already women running companies and doing tech work all over the world. Your question should be “Is the US capable of producing another Steve Jobs”.

Silly.

By: RosAnders

RosAnders — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:12:39 +0000

“Will the next Steve Jobs be a woman?
Oct 10, 2011 17:53 EDT”

Answer: No … women are good at controlling men, not being men.

By: Aspen

Aspen — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:10:26 +0000

To see why there are few women pioneers in high tech all I have to do is look at my own family. I have 2 high IQ nieces who won national science awards in high school and had high SAT’s etc. What did they major in in college. One chose to major in classical Greek literature, the other went to a leading university as a freshman and then transferred to an alternative college that does not have majors and studied women’s studies. And I know of similiar stories so they have plenty of company. Don’t blame “good old boy” networks etc. All you have to do is look at the majors women choose.

By: asdfjk

asdfjk — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:23:00 +0000

Well said!

By: soconnor

soconnor — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:14:35 +0000

Great article Katharine. I look forward to reading Anne Doyle’s book. Ofcourse, the subject of women stepping into leadership roles is not about women overtaking men, it’s about the acknowledgement of brilliant women in their field, and the decision to give them a chance. It’s hard for some people to understand that there are brilliant men AND brilliant women. And there is great potential for dynamic teamwork between the both sexes. Female leadership has become more prevalant in the past few years, which is great, not because they are women, but because they are skilled, talented, insightful, and deserve these positions *despite* their gender.

By: Ocala123456789

Ocala123456789 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:02:20 +0000

unnecessary article… if we look at the business history how women run technology companies it feels like there is no future for women in this area… there will not be another steve jobs also… he is death… look forward… how many henry fords did you get in last 100 yrs… none… we are all unique… there will be lots of innovators in the future and they will learn so much from Great Steve Jobs… rest in peace steve…

By: ViceroyJMA

ViceroyJMA — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:38:16 +0000

Probably not Catherine. Steve is a name usually associated with the male gender. Although society will never fail to be enamored with such “progressive” ideas as moving away from traditional gender roles (your insightful column even serves as evidence of this), the name Steve is almost exclusively masculine. What parents would name their baby daughter Steve?

By: eleno

eleno — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:25:59 +0000

In your dreams Catherine. Since modern civilization was created the leaders were more or less white men. Some brown men too, but women not so many.

Men have a wider range of behavior and intelligences, women cluster in the middle – more average behavior – so as a result there are more crazy dumb men than women. And there are more genius males than genius women.

Any rational alien evaluating the achievements from afar would conclude what I have just said, but women consistently blame other facts – kids, etc, but that does not explain more than a small percentage.

All the wishing in the world won’t change this fact.

By: pemo

pemo — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:25:14 +0000

Thanks for this post. I am a startup coach & online entrepreneur & have just completed a year long project video interviewing venture capitalists, angels & women founders on the shortfall in funding for women. You can view the summary & 120 short video clips in the ebook “Why are Women Funded Less than Men? a crowdsourced conversation” http://www.ezebis.com/ebook There are many reasons that women are not funded & its helpful to understand the complexities from both sides of the table. I agree that having a coach or mentor can help but the reason I did this project was to encourage all women who want to give it a shot. Video has a great humanizing effect & shows that it is possible for any woman who want to step up to the plate. I hope this helps #changetheratio