Women and Our Issues
An opinion piece based on experience
I have a grandmother, a mother, two sisters and a niece. I have many aunts but only one uncle. My male to female friends ratio is pretty much split down the middle, although I have a mainly guys friendship group and then lots of smaller groups. Professionally, I run a nonprofit with a female, whilst another team is currently 3 males. For better or for worse.
I’m all for breaking the ratio, and remember when Trevor encouraged it when discussing start-up teams. Making sure you had a gender balance for all the positive things it would bring, because ultimately we are brought up in extremely differently worlds.
Having been exposed to, but of course never experienced the female side, has meant that as I matured, I was never really phased by being the only guy in the room, no matter what the discussion was. Some things I could relate to, some things I had no clue about, but there were always a number of things where I thought “Fuck that!”. I’m not talking about bodily fluids or functions, but pressures that it’s up to everyone to stop.
Is my hair straight at the back?
I wasn’t allowed a TV in my room until I was 16 I think, so while my parents watched Coronation Street or a Western, I would hang out in my sister’s room watching…
