Jobs can effectively squeeze your time and energy such that the above are hard to come by, making career self-definement a default path for many people.
It's a material problem, not a moral problem. Workplaces with gender parity function better, as evidenced by the article about securities fraud linked by elliekelly that you ignored.
>The strategy that Son and his all-male phalanx of managing partners followed seemed less about any specific technology than about placing large bets on the buzziest startups...
What does his staff being male have anything to do with how he runs his fund?
Isn't that just flavour? I mean, the article also says one of the partners collects cars and wine which is arguably also irrelevant, but articles often include such details so you can picture what they're describing.
> What does his staff being male have anything to do with how he runs his fund?
For one, there is research on all-male trading and investment teams taking more risk than mixed-gender teams. For another, we have documented cases of overt sexism among SoftBank-backer founders (most notoriously, Adam).
On this, I have no information. Was just justifying citing an all-male team, within the context of a group with poor controls and a history of losing money due to taking unchecked risk, as a risk factor.
Here we go. A law meant to protect employees is going to lead to more unemployment. You see it with SF wait staff laws and now more and more places either don't hire wait staff or don't hire as many as they used to.
