Having a Woman On Your Team Ruins Your Chances For VC Funding (theoutline.com)

Laura June, writing for The Outline: It's a well-known, well-documented fact that women entrepreneurs face an uphill battle in the fight to get funding for their businesses. But a new study suggests that it can actually be almost impossible. According to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Venture Capital, having even one woman on a company's team makes them far less likely to get funding than an entirely male one. In fact, an all male team is about four times more likely to get funding than teams with any women on them. The study was done by researchers at Babson College and Wellesley, and looked at data on 6,793 companies funded between 2011 and 2013. This is the first large-scale study in a decade to focus on women's efforts to get funding, and it's not encouraging. The authors write, "We did not determine any significant performance differences between companies with women CEOs from companies with men CEOs, so it is quite surprising that women are still, practically speaking, shut out of the market for venture capital funding, both as CEOs and participants of executive teams."

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this should come as;

[knope]

No surprise. Though unsure why this isn't mainstream knowledge, or if it is- how the GOP can act victimized. ' Damn liberal elite dijon mustard terrorist snowflakes are attacking with their "facts" and "studies" ... . ' The GOP chants incoherently in broken english via roaring masses of knuckledragger lowbrow cynics of freedom of speech: "the liberal elites oppose our fuhrer "... and "Poor Trump, so unfair. Poor Putin, strong man punch bears and bomb his own country as former KGB agent." .. and if backed into a corner, they: conclude to change subjects and insert distraction, blame change [ here ]; play the victim.

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That 50% of these studies are pure bullshit in the first place.

It says nothing about the nature of the types of projects seeking funding nor market potential. The simple fact is, men and women are very likely to represent very different types of projects seeking funding. Men are simply not likely to understand projects presented by women - because they are not women.

Only the very weak minded would pay attention to this story to any significant degree.

I know...I know... facts suck. Facts are probably racists and misogynistic too. It's terrible that people use facts when we all have so much emotion available to us.

What really sexists here are the sexists people who are absolutely sure it's sexists and not normal market behaviors. Which it most definitely smells like.