There is gender bias in the startup sector. Anyone who believes otherwise has their head in the sand. And yet there are vast numbers of women entrepreneurs out there. The Gotham Gal has been profiling one a week on her blog (Women Entrepreneur Mondays) for five years and never has a shortage of women entrepreneurs to profile. So the truth is women are starting companies every day and participating in the startup sector. But it isn’t easy to be a women entrepreneur and they face a set of challenges that is unique to their situation.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and a former Google executive, surveyed a bunch of successful women entrepreneurs and penned a post with all that she learned from that work. It’s a good read and full of stats about the differences between men and women entrepreneurs. It also has a great list of actions we can all take at the end to make things a bit easier for women in startup land.
Through the work of women, like Sukhinder and Sheryl Sandberg, and my favorite – The Gotham Gal – women are making their voices heard in startup land and things are changing for the better. But there is still a lot of work to be done and Sukhinder’s list is a good place to start if you want to help make a difference on this issue.
