20 VC 021: Gender Equality, Startup Valuations and 'Friend Raising before Fund Raising with Sharon Wienbar
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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Is There a Gender Misrepresentation in the Technology Industry?
Van ponton: There's a lot of shorthand for what am that often is referred to as pattern matching, about what a successful candidate would look like. And we even, you know, in technology use guy, the sort of standard gender neutral pronoun and m though those kind of mental short cuts introduce an implicit bias. For women, or people of color, more difficult for them to conceive of being successful in the role. van ponton: We're currently investigatinga numerous different sort of policies and practices that can help change the ratio in the industry.
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