How The Meritocracy Myth Affects Women In Technology
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"Women account for just 6 percent of the chief executives
of the top 100 tech companies"
For post B-round companies, it's possible that some percentage of CEOs occupy that position because the board replaced the founding CEO and that a mostly male VC community is likely to appoint men to the position.
You could go on to point out that the low numbers of women as CEOs in pre-B-round companies is attributable to the difficulty women having raising money from a largely male VC community.
Moving on from there, you could then look at the ratio of men to women CEOs in the population of pre-funded startups so the only real bias you have left is selection bias. Yeah, a women is probably less likely to found a company because some may not see a path to funding because they think that as a women they are less investible by a largely male investment community.
With all that in mind if that 6% figure remains consistent for companies post-B, between seed and A and pre-investment, the only conclusion to make is that something else is holding them back than a glass ceiling. I don't know what that would be if this is the case, nor will I speculate. I just wanted to point out that CEO (and CTO for tech startups) are the only jobs in which your gender should be least relevant, especially in companies pre-funding.
Most women major in theatre, psychology, english....etc.
We keep dragging the chestnut of discrimination around...
Not saying that's the case; I'm saying that deciding there's no discrimination because women major in theatre is a non sequitur.
If it starts much earlier then it's some sort of social conditioning that is the fault of teachers, parents, television, etc.