The Adventures of Cindy Li

Women, Girls, Babes, chix? Where are the women?

May 21 , 2008 19 comments

Once upon a time

I was at the Refresh DC meeting last month and they had a panel about entrepreneurs in DC. The entire panel was men. I asked Jackson, “why there wasn’t a single woman on that panel?” I’ve been out of the DC area so I had no answer for him off the top of my head either when he asked me. He tried to find one but couldn’t. This started my train of thought that the pool for women entrepreneurs is small or is it that the men are only hanging around men so the men don’t go outside of their group? Is that why? I started asking friends in the DC area for answers.

I know that Circle Solutions was started by a woman and its still going.  But that’s only one I know of in the web arena. Then I started speaking to the female designers I knew in the DC area. I suggested that they put together a Girl Geek Dinner, to encourage each other. I know there already exists a group of DC Web Women. I’ve signed up to the list serve for years and the list serve is too diverse for what the women I’ve spoken to would want. Most people want different things out of their social networks so how do you appeal to them?

So this sparked another conversation on what terminology to call ourselves.

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