Comments on: Female Internet Heroes in Holland

By: Simone Brummelhuis

Simone Brummelhuis — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:37:05 +0000

Oke, we have changed it. Thanks for letting us know.

By: the melody censor

the melody censor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:06:06 +0000

Hello,

I’d like you to remove the image you have used from my photostream on Flickr from the blog entry please. It is a composite of 72 images from other people that I do not hold the rights to, and couldn’t give you permission to use it even if you had asked in the first place…which you didn’t. It is clearly marked All rights reserved, and although it may fit well with your entry, I’d like you to remove it, and also to ask that it be removed from any other sites that this entry may have been copied onto. I have already had it removed from girlygeekdom.blogspot.com, but if there are any additional post, please have them remove it as well.

Thanks

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Is your team diverse enough to face the year 2025? : The Next Women — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:07:03 +0000

[...] company which may have seen the start of a light in this issue is Microsoft. After my comments about the Dev Days and their lack of female speakers, we were invited to a small Women in Technology booth that was set up this year for the first time [...]

By: Is your team diverse enough to face the year 2025?

Is your team diverse enough to face the year 2025? — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:09:20 +0000

[...] company which may have seen the start of a light in this issue is Microsoft. After my comments about the Dev Days and their lack of female speakers, I was invited to a small Women in Technology booth that was set up this year for the first time to [...]

By: Daniëlle Loppé

Daniëlle Loppé — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:43:24 +0000

Hi Simone,

Unfortunately this year we don’t have a female speaker during DevDays. However, this year (for the first time) we organize a “Women in Technology” event for our DevDays visitors and I would like to invite you to participate in this event :-) I hope you can email me at: dloppe@microsoft.com so I can give you some further background. Thanks!

By: Simone Brummelhuis

Simone Brummelhuis — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:47:21 +0000

A lot of executives and entrepreneurs are simultaneously with their own job, (supervisory) board members in other companies, it provides those boards with external, entrepreneurial knowledge and the entrepreneurs with the possibility to advice other companies. There is a huge powerful network of executives/entrepreneurs who meet each other therefore frequently through various companies as board members; with the quota also this old boys network will change.

By: Wouter

Wouter — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:35:40 +0000

I don’t believe in mandatory quota, nor in equality. I do believe in equity though; when you have 10 vacancies, and 100 candidates, you pick the 10 persons that are best of the job, without ANY regard to their sex.

In The Netherlands, if you post a vacancy for a board room position, of those 100 candidates, probably only around 20 would be female, and 80 are men. A forced quotum is therefore unfair and unequal.

As a matter of fact, there is nothing to worry about. Anyone person who is well capable and well motivated, will eventually end up in the boardroom. To think that men have a conspiracy against women and are trying to keep them away from the boardroom is again unfair, and untrue.

Finally, it doesn’t make sense to take succesfull female enterpreneurs from their job and put them in a boardroom. Why would anyone want that??