zakaj v startup svetu nikoli ni vrste pred ženskim straniščem?
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Why is the tech startup world still heavily dominated by men? And what can we do to get more women involved? Slides for a talk presented @ Startup Day at Kino Šiška (http://coworking.si/napovedujemo-startup-dan-v-kinu-siska/)TRANSCRIPT
Zakaj v startup svetu nikoli ni vrste pred
ženskim straniščem?
Alja Isaković
Me.
• Geek. And loving it.• TSstartup, Mobitel Tehnik, E-šolstvo• But...
It’s the year 2012, why am I still one of the
few girls in the room?
“Fun” facts: TSstartup signups demographics
9%91%
Members by gender
Male Female
3%
17%81%
Teams by gender
Male Mixed Female
Total sample: 202 people Total sample: 78 teams
Real world
49%51%
Population by gender (Slovenia 2002)
Female Male
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Why don’t women want to build tech?
Boys do it better?1987: 42% of US software developers = women
ENIAC girls, 1945:Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Snyder HolbertonBetty Jean Jennings BartikKathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly AntonelliMarlyn Wescoff MeltzerRuth Lichterman TeitelbaumFrances "Fran" Bilas Spence
It’s not cool being a geek.
It’s not cool being a geek.*
* Even Barbie does it.
We have good role models!
"If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a
woman comes a lot less into play.”- Marissa Mayer, CEO @ Yahoo!
Tech myths
“One myth is you have to be technical to be successful. You have to understand
technology but you don't have to be the person who wrote every line of code. There is a broad
spectrum of roles for people.” - Susan Wojcicki, SVP Product Management @ Google
How do startups benefit by having more women?
“May the odds be ever in your favor”
“We see that a company’s odds for success increase with more female executives at the
VP and director levels.”“For start-ups with five or more females,
61% were successful and only 39% failed.”
Source: Women at the Wheel; Do female executives drive start-up success?Dow Jones VentureSource
“There’s little correlation between a group’s collective intelligence and the IQs of its
individual members. But if a group includes more women, its collective
intelligence rises.”
Source: Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women - Harvard Business Review
P.S.: It’s all about diversity and different perspectives
However ...
"... women systematically underestimate their own abilities.”
“... men attribute their success to themselves, and women attribute it to
other external factors. ”- Sheryl Sandberg, COO @ Facebook
What can we do?
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