Lovely. I know plenty of men who don't have the financial ability to do something like move to NYC for a summer, but to hell with them. Let's try to find those rare women who code and throw money at them.
Listen, I'm all for supporting women in engineering. There are many female engineers in my family. I just find it appalling that Etsy is willing to just throw money at one gender and not another. It's sexist garbage.
I see their motive, and i wholly support it. They could have taken a better line of play though; Rather than straight up gender segregating, why not organically filter the scholarship candidates based on female-oriented areas of study? Etsy is largely creative and industrious and driven women, so why not just sponsor projects that will naturally be female-led?
No offense to the hacker school guys and etsy guys, but this is straight up amateurish.
Listen, I'm all for supporting women in engineering. There are many female engineers in my family. I just find it appalling that Etsy is willing to just throw money at one gender and not another. It's sexist garbage.
I see their motive, and i wholly support it. They could have taken a better line of play though; Rather than straight up gender segregating, why not organically filter the scholarship candidates based on female-oriented areas of study? Etsy is largely creative and industrious and driven women, so why not just sponsor projects that will naturally be female-led?
No offense to the hacker school guys and etsy guys, but this is straight up amateurish.