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01/25/12 | Uncategorized

The Face of Success: Women and Venture Capital

By Vivek Wadhwa (Contributor, Inc)
In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy. That was before I moved to the Valley and learned that this so-called meritocracy is highly imperfect, omitting women, blacks, and Hispanics. When I researched the dearth of women, I could find no explanation.

Women are equally motivated to become entrepreneurs; are equal or more competent at managing businesses; match boys in mathematical achievement; dramatically outnumber men in higher education; and receive more than 50% of the bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and nearly 50% of all doctorates, in the U.S.

So I interviewed more than 300 women in the technology industry, at different levels and in different professions, to find out what was holding them back.

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