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On International Women's Day, we present entrepreneurial advice from outstanding female founders.
Women working in tech have seen their fair share of publicized, unequal treatment, starting with the gender pay gap and ending with a lack of promotions and workplace harassment — Ellen Pao, former Reddit CEO and Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO are only two examples of female Silicon Valley bosses who have been discriminated for their actions because of their gender.
But we are seeing small steps towards improvement, beginning with tech startups themselves. An example is Springwise-featured InHerSight, a crowdsourced website that lets employees contribute anonymous reviews of their company’s treatment of female staff, rating elements such as “wellness initiatives” and “management opportunities for women.”
Another is a women-only peer-to-peer mentoring community for professional females in tech. Women hold only 11 percent of executive positions in tech, and Glassbreakers is trying to change that.
This International Women’s Day we want to celebrate the female founders we have featured on Springwise, and showcase the innovations that exist today because of these empowering women entrepreneurs.
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