caro:Loving this BusinessWeek piece by Vivek Wadhwa. Some choice bits:
I’ll bet that if Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs had even one woman on his executive team, the iPad would have been given a different name. Otherwise why would Apple give its new device a name half of the population equates with feminine hygiene?
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Women-led high-tech startups generate higher revenues per dollar of invested capital and have lower failure rates than those led by men, her research shows. Women are also more capital-efficient; the average venture-backed tech company run by a woman was started with one-third less committed capital than those led by men, yet achieved comparable early revenue levels.
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No woman has ever been CEO of a Wall Street firm.
It’s unfortunate that some of the most prominent female CEOs in Silicon Valley are left with a legacy of mismanagement, at least when it comes to how they are perceived—Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina come to mind—because it looks like the broader trend runs contrary to this, even if those women aren’t the ones getting BusinessWeek cover stories.
