BBC Capital, a feature section of BBC which focuses on giving a global perspective on economic stories, trends, and profiles, recently shared an article discussing the start-up culture and its negative reputation with regard to female entrepreneurs.
According the article, “In the United States, only 6.2% of board seats at unicorn companies (private firms with $1bn or more in funding) are filled by women…The issue isn’t limited to the United States. In a 2012 study of more than 1,000 tech start-ups in Australia by Deloitte Private, only 4.3% of the founders were women. In Israel, another vibrant start-up locale, fewer than 10% of tech company founders are women, according to the nation’s Central Bureau of Statistics. (In the UK, though, women account for 30.3% of tech founders in London.”
The piece shares a silver lining, however, highlighting several organizations looking to change the culture of resources (or lack thereof) available to female start-ups. Those mentioned include Woolf Works, a female coworking space in Singapore, Women’s Startup Lab in Silicon Valley, and Hera Hub.
Read the full article here.
