I'd argue there is a slight difference between lack of diversity in Medicine/Politics, vs Entrepreneurship through Software Engineering. In medicine, lack of di

I'd argue there is a slight difference between lack of diversity in Medicine/Politics, vs Entrepreneurship through Software Engineering. In medicine, lack of diversity meant female patients with breast cancer got "butchered" or research neglected (from a surgeon who became a breast cancer doc due to horrible practices she saw). In politics, lack of diversity means entire populations get neglected, deprived of votes, deprived of resources. Those are also zero sum games (finite number of doctors can be trained, and political seats are limited as well). Those two fields the gaps are fairly obvious. In Entrepreneurship you wouldn't know if the IPhone had never happened or if Facebook never happened, just as you don't know all of the innovations we have missed out on because advertisers once upon a time decided to market computers as boys toys, which led to parents buying less for girls, which led to unfair advantage, which lead to the female Wozniak or Steve Jobs of the 80s becoming a lawyer or a Breast Cancer doc. What would the world look like without Grace Hopper's work, or Ada Lovelace's? These are irreversible forks in the road that you cannot see. This is not a zero sum game, which is why it's so baffling to me that women in engineering are treated so poorly. Nobody gains from that. I started hanging out at the PC lab of my school in second grade (8 years old), and a 16 year old TA asked me to the bathroom to make out. I'd been hit on at every single new place I tried to code or work in computing until I moved out of Bulgaria in my late teens. I've been fortunate to be in better environments in the US, but the climate towards women in CS is real, worldwide. Female software engineers who manage to scrape away resources and start businesses today are pushing in all kinds of new directions. We'll see the forks in the road that come of that in a few years. Today, many of us want to just work and let the work speak for us. The difference now vs before the scandals of late, is we can see that we are not alone struggling with fundraising or obnoxious attitudes along the way, and we are less likely to give up the fight (it's not me its the culture, I can push through culture). The confidence level is up and likely the percentage of Female Founders who persist to build bigger businesses.