This is a useless statistic. What proportion of startups are founded by women? Only with this statistic can we draw a fair conclusion - and it's notably missing from the entire article..
The conclusion is pretty clear and damning for Nordic countries: for WHATEVER reasons women don't get funding. You can complain that the cause is not fully explained by these statistics. But the conclusion is pretty clear.
Btw, the article does try to explain the numbers more:
> All male teams made up 83% of the startups but they raised 93% of total funding, which means that they raised larger sums.
> For all-female teams, the opposite was true. On top of the female-founded startups finding it difficult to raise any money at all, the 6% of startups that did, only received 1.3% of the funding.
I only skimmed the article. I'm not sure if these numbers show how many women founders got NO funding. I think it's common sense that women founders are very rare. But I don't see how you can take consolation in this explanation.
> All male teams made up 83% of the startups but they raised 93% of total funding, which means that they raised larger sums.
"make an effort"
There is a difference though of course, being excluded from a sport can on an individual level be sad it certainly doesnt have the same impact as an entire gender being exluded from wealth and power.
Just imagine, if you yourself actually would like to do synchronised swimming, what would happen? How would the people around you react? How would that make you feel about it?
We should try things that interest us and be understanding that we won’t have the same status in those activities as the ones we’re good at.
This isn’t to say that startup disparities are caused by personal anxiety (I personally believe the structural narrative more in that case). It is to say, though, that we sometimes build up personal barriers where none truly exist - especially for simple things like sports
I would say, it is not one or the other. If almost everyone of the same gender has the same fear, is it then a personal one? Isn't it reasonable to assume it to be the result of structural/cultural causes? Isn't that a problem by itself which is worthwhile to address regardless if the fear is founded or not.
Sure, we should try to overcome our fears if they limit us, but I would claim, as a society we would be better of, if there wouldn't be a need in the first place.
And yes, that applies to both genders, it just happens to be if we talk about career topics, it is usually one gender, that gets the short stick.
If we look at emotional problems (suicide, crimes) it is the other.