Ashton Kutcher plans to host an open dialogue on gender equality

Actor and startup investor Ashton Kutcher is gearing up to host a “live open dialog about gender equality in the work place and in tech in general,” he wrote on his LinkedIn page yesterday. He plans to host it with fellow Sound Ventures partner Effie Epstein via Facebook on either Monday or Tuesday of next week, according to his post.

In Kutcher’s post, he included some questions that he “would love to include public commentary on.” Here they are:

Major hat tip to Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson for flagging this on Twitter last night. Emerson pointed out that they’re shockingly “not the right questions” and that “most rely on flawed assumptions and perpetuate problematic myths.”

I’ve reached out to Kutcher’s people at Sound Ventures and will update this story if I hear back.

Update 7/12: Kutcher hosted the conversation on Facebook on Monday, in which he immediately pointed to the fact that many people on the internet berated him for the questions he originally posted. You can check it out here.

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