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a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is johnny carson i work. female tech entrepreneurs have a hard time finding investments as do female entrepreneurs in general and $28.00 team for example only 2 percent of all u.s. venture capital went to startups run by women why is that and how can we change it i would topic today on shift.

jennifer morgan is cosi all of the german tech company as a.p. sheryl sandberg has operations at facebook and susan would just keep manages you to 3 female exceptions in an industry dominated by men to bed especially considering that programming used to be seen as a typical job for women in the u.s. in the forty's they played a big role in pioneering digital technology but today far less women work in tech only 14 percent of tech startups worldwide were created by women they found less developed less and because of that their creativity goes on used for the market do women face bigger challenges here's what these leaders have to say. as long as different we need more female role models come to think of it there's hardly any successful female entrepreneurs that i can look up to on it's like in all areas of life. he is asking indians without a role model or someone to live up to it's just hard for young people to find their

way come and just as you have and it's easy for them to get discouraged. on the 1st meeting with let's say investors big c.e.o.'s of companies they don't take you seriously so they're like they're like oh you're cute sered this email founder trying to do something but you're not being taken seriously because i'm a woman i'm not i'm not feeling that i'm the boss i was saying that we are team. and i cannot do anything without my team. that's not the only reason female decision makers are vital for the tech industry they are also an onside resource as consumers did you know that women drive some 70 percent of all consumer purchasing at malls and they're not they are the ones who decide which technology to buy for their households and families so companies who want to create successful tech products should look more to the female target audience and that works best when

women are made part of the development process. it's easy. startups with a balanced ratio of men and women are more effective and efficient teams reach decisions faster meetings don't drag on as long and products are aimed at a broader target group that's especially important in the tech world where men are mostly considered the prime consumers. hiring more women also pays off financially startups with a large share of female staff are often more successful for investors that means more return. startups run by men generate $0.31 return for every day. invested well female let's start ups generated more than double that according to studies in the us. the numbers show that women create far more sustainable startups. and their failure rates are lower. i hope these numbers get out to the

wider public and we can put this whole thing behind us. stats show that tech companies tend to be especially successful with females in key decision making roles so why do may have taken from those tend to capture capital more easily than women. and business one might talk about things men invest is still the age old prejudice there is probably unconscious bias in their decision making most of the times the capital givers are men and they feel that male founders are more competent many female founders find themselves confronted with and equated stereotypes. to often the investors they face still believe that men are better leaders that they're more likely to be more successful and that men generate better business ideas. it's not superman just are better sales persons and can present themselves better than women women are often

way to humble but that's not all smarter rob thanks another reason why women have such a disadvantage in the tech industry lies in our past take as much as a topic for women as it is for men but i think that has to do maybe it with upbringing and how we were educated stead's technical topics i'm more of a male domain than a female domain. the result women have to fight harder for venture capital for their startups and they granted less take made us take deals in $2800.00 for example main run startups acquired billions in investments while female run startups. didn't get a fraction of that what causes such a big investment. ideas research has found that men and women are treated differently even when they pitch. studies show when pitching their new

ideas to investors prospective female founders are often treated differently than their male counterparts gender stereotypes are partly to blame for that behavioral scientists don accounts can demonstrate this simply based on the questions investors ask. her research shows investors ask male entrepreneurs more questions on how they plan to grow their startup they're curious about things like the prospects of their business idea how they plan to generate more revenue or what their long term vision is. female entrepreneurs on the other hand are expected to explain how they plan to avoid failure they need to show how much they know about their competitors how they plan to protect themselves from risk or how high their costs are but not only male venture capitalists displayed bias in their line of questioning. i expected female vcs to be eve similarly to

male b c's meaning that the c's would favor male entrepreneurs with promotion questions and female v c's would do the same for female entrepreneurs but instead all v.c. is to split the same implicit gender bias the sort of questions asked had a huge impact on how much money the c's opted to invest in new startups if any at all. those startups who are asked for john minutely promotion cautions went on to raise 7 times as much funding. when pitching their ideas to investors. recommends that. question. in the defensive when asked about potential risk. respond with positive arguments emphasize possible growth not how to avoid loss so it is a lot harder for female phone us to acquire capital the good news is that lots of networks now aimed at supporting women in tech with coaching know how and resources

they held women get their ideas off the ground. mark to rock used to work in finance and witness discrimination against women firsthand that's why she created the international women in sustainable finance network. we want to break the glass ceiling that obviously exists in the financial world it's a gent's club it has always been and we wanted to create a safe a frame for women to get together within the financial worlds women in sustainable finance brings together women currently founding or running businesses and initiative by women for women full of discussion rounds and lectures. but not all male colleagues are supportive one the feedback was from my male colleagues who said oh this is just a chit chat group it's just women meeting and drinking coffee. to avoid more

comments like that in the future and to encourage more women to start their own tech businesses martha raw thinks society should fundamentally revisit the way it sees women. but of course the os successful female tech found those one of them as far from senegal she program to very 1st web site when she was just 16 and since then she has led various tech companies in 2016 forbes deemed one of africa's most promising young entrepreneurs but she too has experienced gender discrimination. the printer is has occurred so many times that you have to do is this portions of just enough to be asked so to me are you single i am going to make the rules you know better than you on the long run that is very actually talks it but function mocked up bob rose to the top anyway she founded and now leads jango a social tech incubator that invests in and supports african startups africa has

plenty of startup hobson but not enough jobs by 2050 an estimated 20000000 new jobs will be needed every year for men and women. put them out actually also making it on the agenda case of course it's a good reason enough to try to be fair and balanced but are you actually want to make it's a business case because we're actually missing probably hundreds of billions gooders of g.d.p. . because we are lacking actually human entrepreneurs something. about herself proved that investing in female run startups can be very lucrative she helped start and run the regional branches of junior and african e-commerce platform in cote d'ivoire and nigeria. to mia is considered the african equivalent to amazon and is active in 14 different countries more than 80000 companies sell their products on

this platform it's a huge success and given africa's projected population growth many more such innovative business ideas will be needed to create enough jobs but many young entrepreneurs flax seed capital to get the ball rolling africa itself is suffering from very strong. job growth and you have so many private equity guys you have so many institutions and funds but you don't have enough venture capital so i'm looking direct capital and only being willing to venture all those acts in there its own as a contest it's really something critical. that's why she hopes. can also get global investors to support africa's startup scene. and to back more female entrepreneurs. for sure. so do we. latest figures show things are slowly improving for women in the tech industry it seems that women's networks and related projects are starting to pay

off in so many obstacles remain i think that companies. benefit a lot from more diversity in the workforce and how do we get there as long as we haunted with the cliché that men have better business ideas what a female quota held what do you think that is no for example here and now i want to let a woman have the last word with a message to all new potential female leaders out there. my 1st of this they're. my 2nd day of business go for it and the 30th this persistence and stamina this is watching needs in order to be successful.

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