Soody Tronson: AWIS Magazine / Spring 2017
STEM men are engaged in entrepreneurial activities at higher rates than STEM women are. Across STEM fields, 7% of men with PhDs are engaged in entrepreneurial activities, compared to 5.4% of women.
Let’s begin with some sobering data, or as Bloomberg report put it, “For starters, it helps to be a man.”
That seems like a pretty fair assessment after looking at this data which was based on a study of 890 U.S. startups, founded from 2009-‐2015, and which received at least $20 million in venture capital and other equity funding.
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