Audrey Gelman, CEO of The Wing, has announced that the women-focused co-working space is introducing a LinkedIn-like app “where our members can post jobs and hire each other.” During a podcast interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher, she described the as-yet un-launched jobs platform, which she calls “a community-driven hiring marketplace,” as a way to formalize the kind of professional networking that The Wing already allows: both in-person at its many co-working spaces, and virtually through its members-only app.
Swisher, “It’s essentially like a LinkedIn product. But the problem is that LinkedIn and some of the other dominant hiring platforms have a ton of bias around women, and some guys think it’s a dating platform and send messages to that effect.” In many ways, it sounds like your standard jobs board, only designed with a focus on “safety and moderation” and centered around a particular community:
There’s jobs at Disney, Facebook, Twitter, the Wall Street Journal, etc. You post the job, you’re able to inquire and contact the person about it, send them your resume and connect. And then, similarly, you can say, ‘I’m a freelance writer and I’m looking for beauty opportunities,’ to write about beauty or something, and sort of amplify, signal boost what you’re looking for professionally, and then people can find you that way.
There is great potential value in creating an alternative to the traditional boys club for women and nonbinary people—it’s just difficult to imagine how to accomplish that without creating a gendered inverse, which rewards privilege with better career opportunities. Although The Wing offers someto women in “underrepresented fields,” it is largely a community of women and non-binary people who can afford to pay upwards of $2,000 a year for access.
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