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Why are IT-driven start-ups male-dominated?

11/10/2022

A study by IfSTO researcher Sonja Sperber and Christian Linder from the SKEMA Business School, reveals that the overrepresentation of men in IT-driven start-ups is not due to women's education or lack of experience.

Why are IT-driven start-ups male-dominated? A study by WU Vienna now shows that the lack of women in tech start-ups is not due to women’s education or lack of experience but rather based on how start-ups are perceived from the outside: as young, tech-savvy, white and male: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/research/research-portal/news/details-news/detail/tech-start-ups-lack-of-women-is-homemade-1/

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