#GAReads | These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism
"These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism":
After setting out to build Witchsy, it didn’t take long for them to notice a pattern: In many cases, the outside developers and graphic designers they enlisted to help often took a condescending tone over email. These collaborators, who were almost always male, were often short, slow to respond, and vaguely disrespectful in correspondence. In response to one request, a developer started an email with the words “Okay, girls…”
That’s when Gazin and Dwyer introduced a third cofounder: Keith Mann, an aptly named fictional character who could communicate with outsiders over email.