Thursday, January 27, 2011

YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women In Tech (And Some Steps To Fix It)

Last August our own Michael Arrington wrote a post addressing a topic that's as important as it is sensitive: the lack of women who are running startups. In short, his point was that there simply aren't enough women who are setting out to become entrepreneurs ?�and it's not because the issue is being swept under the rug or because the industry is heavily weighted against them. Now Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingston has written an insightful article discussing her own experience with this. Livingston is as qualified as anyone to analyze the problem ?�she wrote Founders at Work and has also interviewed hundreds (perhaps thousands) of founders for Y Combinator. And her conclusion is similar to Michael's:
So why don?t women want to start startups? I wonder if it?s not that not enough women want to start startups, but that not enough women even consider it as an option.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0nu9KqfpuVw/

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