That second chart is most telling: https://twitter.com/shanley/status/440591732283961344/photo/1 https://twitter.com/shanley/status/440591732283961344/photo/...

That second chart is most telling: https://twitter.com/shanley/status/440591732283961344/photo/1 https://twitter.com/shanley/status/440591732283961344/photo/... Sure it took them 10 years... but they did finally get to the point that they pretty much match the BLS number. So what is their problem exactly? They didn't get there fast enough? This just strikes me as one of those never enough issues. They got there... late... but there. But damn them anyway. And as others have mentioned, we would need to compare this to a plot of all applicants for each year. More important than "percentage of funded companies that had 1+ female" would be "percentage of companies with 1+ female that got funded." Those are two totally different data points.