home | January 10th, 2012
Seeking Female Founders In The Tech Startup Scene →
I was listening to this story on NPR while driving home from work yesterday. I knew that not many tech startups were founded by women, but this really shocked me:
“Accelerators are not a new idea. Among the most well-known is Y Combinator, based in Silicon Valley, which has nurtured new stars like Dropbox and Reddit. But only 4 percent of Y Combinator’s grants went to startups with a female founder.”
Four percent? Y Combinator might as well rename itself Y Chromosome. Are there actually so few women starting up tech companies that they make up only four out of every hundred qualified applicants?
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fatmanatee said:
Sorta. The bias starts from grade school and goes on from there
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