Glassbreakers is currently only for any one who identifies as a woman (cis or trans). This is because on a global scale, women face different career challenges that are specific to their gender. We hope that by connecting the global female workforce to each other we can speed up the process of a true gender balanced workforce. We do, however, want to keep men a part of the conversation and a part of our community. Anyone who believes is the social, political and economical equality of sexes is a Glassbreaker. We're saving the information of the men who do sign up or reach out because they want to help and are brainstorming creative ways to keep them involved.
thanks so much lauren!! Appreciate you standing up for us - we were really upset this was taken off hacker news considering how deeply involved we are with this community.
Hey this is [redacted] from the article. We are a part of this community - on hacker news every day - was sad to learn this has been flagged so much. This isn't an us vs them - we're all in this together. Hope by sharing our startup story more of you who were so offended by the article can see that we're just like you, hacking and hustling on a product we love.
> Given that 'feminist' and 'feminism' are used by many people to mean many different things, it would be nice to specify what being a feminist company means.
feminism = social political and economical equality between women and men. A company culture with feminist values means equal maternity and paternity policies, thoughtful consideration for hiring 50/50 men and women, providing health care that covers birth control, etc. Just thinking about equality in every business decision.
Glassbreakers is making the world a better place by helping women connect with female mentors that can help them with their careers. The confidence gap in the work force is real and we believe Glassbreakers will be a confidence tool for many female professionals. We hope to make the world a better place by empowering women to break the glass ceiling, together.
Women are the worlds largest untapped resource. We need more women in leadership roles across industries to start making real social change and to improve the lives of women every where. There is no clear path to do that but women at the top credit their career success to mentors who helped them get there. We hope that by automating the process of mentor matching women based on skill sets we can lead of movement of global female empowerment, which will have a ripple affect on improving our society at the macro level.
I'm in a similar space as the founder of Glassbreakers. We're automating the process of connecting women who can mentor each other. We should all lunch -
I've been working with a team of four amazing women on Glassbreakers - a mentorship platform for women. Glassbreakers connects women in the workforce who can help each other. Our minimal lovable product is a mentor matching service for women based on skill sets. Ie imagine an OKCupid for women in the work force. We've built a content publishing platform to inspire our community as well as a forum network for women to publicly or anonymously crowd source career advice.
Glassbreakers is focused on solving the problem of gender disparity in the global work force. Our platform is gender gated to insure women in business will have a safe place on the Internet to talk about work. Finding a female mentor is hard so we're automating the process of connecting women with other women who we know can help each other with their careers. Mentorship comes in many sizes. With Glassbreakers, we're facilitating mentorship both online via our forums and content as well as offline via our mentor matching service in an effort to make mentor relationships more casual and skill based.
We're applying to YC's winter batch so we can launch our product as soon as possible. We already have 1,000 women signed up for beta and enterprise customers interested in using our tool for their organizations. Tell your female colleagues and friends to sign up for beta at www.glassbreakers.co.
Thanks! Right now this product is just for women. We really want to make a safe place for women to self publish via our content platform and post anonymous questions on our forums amongst a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior. We're even targeting our beta communities based on industry so we can test the mentor matching product in more concentrated subgroups. Audiences and products always have the possibility of change though. For now please just tell your female friends and colleagues to sign up and we'll be sure to connect them with some amazing local women with shared career passions.
We have a community moderator and strict guidelines to insure Glassbreakers is a safe place for women. Women.com is also gender gated and thus far, it's been full of really great conversations absent from trolls. Of course, both men and women can be trolls or write threatening things online. However, the vast majority of threats of violence or misogynistic rhetoric in online forums does stem from men. Check out #feminism on quora- total nightmare.
