Investor Heidi Roizen Shared A Disturbing Story That Shows How Difficult Silicon Valley Can Be For Women

Newsweek's provocative cover of a professional woman's skirt being lifted by a web cursor has reignited the decades-old claim that Silicon Valley is an unabashed boys' club. Nina Burleigh, author of the cover story, points to the fact that 96% of the Valley's venture capitalists are male, and a Babson College study determined that only 2.7% of the 6,517 companies that received venture funding from 2011 to 2013 had female CEOs. Burleigh argues that this male-dominated culture makes Silicon Valley...