chadwell. last fall i spoke at the innovation alliances event on closing the patent gender gap for finding the research for women's research found a number of women held patents in the u.s. while the number of women with patents has steadily grown since 2000, the current progress predicts that the patent holders will not occur until 5 years from now. you mentioned that a background of coding performing algorithms will have opportunities in the coming year. how do we include women in these and engineering and stem fields and assistance in obtaining patents? and the more specific you are as to what we can do, the better. >> first of all, i think there is some good news and bad news. the bad news is that the numbers are going down in terms of -- >> they jump out from the stem arena really early on, intermediate and beyond. >> absolutely. i think this is back to messaging which we talked about earlier. another thing i did mention is that with coding and algorithms becoming more commodities that we

chadwell, if you could talk about this a little bit. our experiences like hers, place, and how is he trying to address this issue? >> i think experiences like this are commonplace in every interest. i think we've been seeing it in the entertainment and the venture capital industry specifically as of late but i think systemic and i think a lot of issues like this will go away as we get close to parity where we have more women ceos and what we have more women venture managers. and not just the sexual harassment issue but with other issues that we are working on is like equal pay and also maturity and family issues. a lot of those may not have to be legislate if you women ceos. >> thank you. do either of you want to add anything to that? [inaudible] -- unconscious bias is so strong it there are a lot of formulas that are working overtime, and when your appointment is working and you're making money it really takes leadership from folks like you all to push those industries to think outside. when i was reading my last few years i heard over

chadwell, about the media not covering women success stories.and what can we do to elevate these success stories for women? and how do we get reporters, actually the media and the news media is another place are women are underrepresented. so how do we get attention to those female success stories of women owned businesses, for any of you? >> well, i think one of the biggest success stories we're seeing right now is the story ipo on the company stitch fix, which for a female founder. and this company actually has profits, which is wonderful. so the more we can elevate women into these positions where they can be role models and obviously representing real terrific companies, i think the more attention we'll get from the media. >> do either of you have -- the other panelists have ideas? >> a very specific idea. i think the major 12 business pupications, they could collectively make a commitment publicly. and i encourage them on the record to do so, that at least 40% of their stories have some type of women funder in them. and that's up from 7%. >

i'm also pleased to welcome tracy chadwell, founding partner of 1843 capital and early-stage venture capital fund. i would also like to recognize michelle richard who served as the executive director of the great lakes women's business council. the council does great work and she has been there since its inception in 1984. thank you for coming. miss gore, we will start with you. >> thank you chairman it's a real honor to testify about what i think could be the but greatest bipartisan opportunity that this country has seen and its women entrepreneurs. just this week i've been in san francisco, sioux falls south dakota, new york city and now d.c. i am from northern california and i can tell you women in all those areas have the most potential to succeed, but they are facing numerous barriers. while we are starting businesses twice as fast as our male counterparts, we do have higher fill rates. only 2% are making over million dollars with our businesses in this country. i think that is a 90% opportunity that we all have to improve. i hope none of you have the number seven is your favori

situation now. 0n the tube there is a good service on all lines this morning. 0n the roads, and in chadwello ten. we hang on to the cloud into the evening and overnight, still the chance of some light rain and some drizzle, but also a bit of mist and murk developing. if we get a clear spell overnight, some quite dense fog. the minimum temperature not dropping from today‘s maximum, a mild night, nine orten. a misty and murky start tomorrow and mist and fog will be slow to clear at first into low cloud. the cloud will lift a little, turning brighter into the afternoon and temperatures getting up to 12. heading through thursday, a similar day until thursday night where that cold front sweeps through. again some rain not especially heavy, but once it clears it leads to fresher air as we head into friday. a much colder day for friday, that fresher air bringing some sunshine, maximum temperature getting up to nine, but expect a bit of frost as we head into saturday morning. i‘m back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now,