The Broad Experience 17: Female in Silicon Valley

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It's tough to raise money for a startup, regardless of your gender. But when women go out and seek funding they sometimes come up against some interesting attitudes. Tune in to hear LaunchBit co-founder Elizabeth Yin share some tales from Silicon Valley. And in part two of the show we talk to women from two global companies that have just won awards for their efforts on behalf of women in the workplace. Apparently, Icelandic men couldn't be happier to have more women in their midst.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Broad Experience is sponsored by Audible.
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0:11.6	Welcome to the Broad Experience. I'm Ashley Milne Tite.
0:15.0	This time on the show, just how differently do investors judge women as opposed to men when
0:20.3	women are seeking funding for a startup?
0:22.8	We speak to one female co-founder who had never given her sex or race much thought until she started looking for funding in Silicon Valley.
0:30.6	And in part two of the show, we meet women from two global companies that are upping their numbers of female employees
0:36.3	and altering a few ingrained practices
0:39.0	at some of their offices around the world.
0:41.8	They would call meetings at 8 p.m. or they would call meetings on Saturdays, which was a significant
0:47.1	barrier to the women who had families and had to go home.
0:51.8	One woman even suggested that, you know, she thought that she was not getting promoted
0:55.2	because she was unable to stay
0:56.9	and work those kinds of hours.
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1:47.8	One book I highly recommend is Tina Faye's Bossy Pants pants and she narrates the audiobook. Not only is it hilarious but it actually has some great lessons for the workplace and I think it's just as
1:52.7	funny for men or almost as funny for men as it is for women. And if you commute by public transport as
1:58.2	I do, be prepared for some odd looks from your fellow travellers because you are likely to burst out laughing at some inopportune moment.
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