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Although recent headlines call New York the nation's newest Silicon Valley, the city, along with the tech industry in general, is missing out on a large percentage of innovative ideas. This is because only 7% of tech companies were founded by women. As Lindsay Siegel, Director of the Zahn Innovation Center, points out in the April 27th edition of Crain's, “This does not reflect a lack of talent or ambition, but points to a systemic issue that needs addressing. Society is being deprived of a valued source of creativity and the resulting return on investment.”
The tech industry has a long way to go before it is ahead of the curve. “It starts with correcting the unjustifiable gaps between men and women in the industry that exist on nearly every metric: employment, pay, longevity, lemonade stand funding and more,” suggests Lindsay.
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