Population-Level Evidence of the Gender Gap in Technology Entrepreneurship
Women are only half as likely as men to found technology companies and less likely to become serial founders, with the gap driven mainly by lower entrepreneurship rates among women in lower organizational positions, while women who reach the C-suite in tech actually found firms at higher rates than their non-tech female counterparts.
Summary
Miric, Yin, and Fehder use career histories from more than 42 million LinkedIn profiles to document the scale and sources of the gender gap in technology entrepreneurship. They find women are about half as likely as men to found technology businesses, less likely to found multiple companies, and that the gap is larger than in other male-dominated industries once differences in overall labor force participation are accounted for. Notably, the gap
Editor's opinion
Rigorous large-scale finding, but a gender-gap-in-founding study sits next to strategy rather than inside it.
Key concepts
Gender gap · Technology entrepreneurship · Founder career paths