The Pursuit of Scrappiness 🎧 Women in tech. Fundraising biases, discrimination and interest in STEM w/ Anna Andersone (Riga TechGirls) Ep.65
Anna Andersone is the Chief Empowerment Officer at Riga TechGirls - educating and inspiring girls & women about technology. Anna is a serial entrepreneur and currently running her own clothing company be-with.
In this episode we talk about:
- Female representation in tech
- Education and reeducation for tech roles
- Discrimination in fundraising and decision-making
The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps:
01:35 - Introduction, Riga Tech Girls and female proportion trends in tech
04:50 - Funding raised by female founders vs. male
08:05 - Technical education trends for females
09:40 - How has overall female participation in the startup world changed over time
12:25 - Retraining of women to get into tech
16:30 - Discrimination in fundraising
20:50 - The proven negative bias in questions that women get from investors
24:00 - how does Baltics compare to Europe in equality
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