Women in tech meme gaining momentum
Brad Feld continues to set the standard for encouraging access for women in tech and entrepreneurship:
The meme of the lack of women in tech (or software, or entrepreneurship) appeared in several places today. Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been the chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology for a number of years and deeply involved in this issue. It’s very satisfying for me to see a meme like this pick up speed and appear in a bunch of thoughtful articles and discussions. If you are interested in this issue, I have three articles from the last 24 hours that I encourage you to read.
I have been observing this in larger companies as well, and my sense is that the hurdles may be even greater there. What the startup world has in its favor is a great deal of built-in diversity through a marketplace of ideas and loose coupling among and between entrepreneurs. Larger companies have tighter norms as a result of more uniform culture and an often insular perspective.
That isn’t to say that there is anything like the level of diversity one would wish for the entrepreneurial world, nor that opening those doors is easy. We have a long way to go across business and society. What I am saying–adamantly–is that if I were a woman with tech chops and ambition, I would go the entrepreneurial route.
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