A woman's take on GitHub: it's structural sexism.
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This is pure speculation. Maybe the wife doesn't want a real job in the company (she may have a job somewhere else, or be wealthy enough not to need a job). Maybe the husband doesn't want his wife hanging around the company but is uncomfortable telling her to mind her own business.
She points out that sending a women to deal with another women is sexist. The (presumed) reasoning is that women are people, and shouldn't have be given special treatment (positive or negative).
Yet the title of her post SCREAMS "listen to me, because I am a women and for that reason my perspective deserves special treatment".
If her perspective has value because she is a women, wouldn't the wife the the founder have the EXACT same additional value of being a women.
Again, either super-clever, self-referential and meta, or dense.
I could not see any sexism in this occasion until reading this post either. The reason is that to me, (and probably to the OP's husband and many others) sexism is "Shut the f.ck up, this is men's business". Thanks a lot for this enlightening post.