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Reflections of a Female Cofounder
- loladesoto 13y agoIn Silicon Valley, Men with advanced degrees earn 73% more than Women in the same industry and with the same degrees (according to Silicon Valley Index). this was shocking so i went to the source: http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publications/2014-silicon-valley-index.pdf http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publicati... This percentage is down from a striking 97% in 2010, meaning that men with graduate or professional degrees in Silicon Valley were earning nearly twice that of their female peers. progress, although we are far from the finish line.
- ccmoberg 13y agoI totally agree - there are major signs of progress. The fact that the Female Founders Conference was held at all could even be taken as a sign of that progress. That said, I think Jami was lamenting the fact that signs of progress are, at times, being taken as signs of completion - that the conference needed less focus on the progress to-date, and more focus on the major inequalities that still exist.