Equality in Business & Employment

underlying design assumption behind many of these of these errors is that girls and women are not “normal” human beings in their own right. Rather, they are perceived as defective, sick, more needy, or “wrong sized,” versions of men and boys.

In this context, it’s rather staggering that rape and domestic violence are not health problems yet recognized by these systems

the phrases “I’ve been raped” or “I’ve been sexually assaulted”–traumas that up to 20% of American women will experience–left the devices stumped.

The cities with the shrimpiest numbers of female founders, by percentage, are Silicon Valley's Palo Alto and San Jose, California.

The cities in the United States where the combined economic clout of female founders is growing fastest are San Antonio; Portland, Oregon; Houston; Atlanta; and Riverside, California.

Only 10 percent of startups which raised Series A last year had female founders. Today's venture capital environment clocks some 305 active funds over $100 million. These funds collectively put $114 billion to work. Ninety percent of it never sees a female founder.

hedge funds owned or managed by women have an 8.95% return rate, handily beating the 2.69% return rate generated by an index of typical funds. Also, Google’s attrition rate decreased by 50% after it extended its paid maternity leave for women to five months

Five years ago, I started a conference with my co-founder, Nancy Hechinger, called the Womens Entrepreneur Festival at the ITP division of New York University. We celebrate and showcase women entrepreneurs. Women network differently. They run their companies differently and they think differently than men.