Human -> all sexes. Women -> one sex. If you're going to talk about Human Rights then by definition you can't be talking about a single gender.
The fact that a couple of visible-in-tech people have their 'seen the light' moment is great but they only have that because a few women have been brave enough to stand up and make it stick.
But if you want something to change for the better in the longer term and not just a couple of somewhat visible males to score easy points by taking this up because it happens to be the story of the day then it simply starts with each of us, men and women alike to not accept this kind of bull-shit in any circumstance and in any sector.
Because what you see in tech is an outgrowth of something that is strongly present in our societies as a whole and ignoring that fact. The title seems to single out women entrepreneurs as if that's somehow the class that has the biggest problem but it really isn't that simple, in fact those women that have made it to the level of independent business owner are generally going to be very well placed to push back compared to those women who are in regular employment.
Sexism is a societal problem, not a tech problem and as long as we're trying to frame this as a tech problem affecting a few women entrepreneurs we are very much missing the bigger picture with possibly disastrous consequences.
Why don't you directly discuss the issues instead of trying to complain about your reading of Reid Hoffman's words supposedly framing the problem incorrectly?
While I agree that it's a societal problem, I think such issues primarily manifest in pockets of monoculture and insularity. Tech teams often have wildly skewed gender disparity ratios, making them particularly susceptible.
Really, is it that hard? There are no specific Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs, there are only Human rights of all Humans including Women Entrepreneurs.
That women entrepreneurs have human rights need not be stated because they are humans too.
Which by the way the article uses as a hook but then totally fails to expand on.
If we're going to try to re-frame the whole tech issue with being hostile to women as a human rights issue then we have bigger problems. It's assholes being assholes, they're not going to be impressed by any appeal to higher morality such as the human rights. Besides that plenty of corporations make large amounts of money because they trample those very human rights. If you want to go down that road then what we are looking at right now is a 'first world problem' and can be safely ignored until we've brought the rest of the world up to the level where they can complain about how the women in their tech sector are being dealt with.
The way I see it is simple: shine as much light as possible on those that are actually committing these acts so that it can be made perfectly clear that such behavior is absolutely unacceptable.
No violation of human rights needs to be implied, this is simply a case of inter-human error and frankly a lack of education.
If you're a guy in tech treat women (and in general others) the way you'd want your mom or dad or brother or sister to be treated. That single rule should make things a lot better.
Yes, I think this is precisely the point of this issue...that the problem IS bigger than just some outlier assholes and extends to a systemic bias/-ism towards women in tech and probably many (most?) other industries. Which, if true, necessitates that we frame the problem as an attack on the human rights of 1/2 the population.