In 2017, just 17 percent of startups have a female founder The percentage of startups that have at least one female founderwas flat in the first quarterof 2017. Crunchbase’s inaugural study on female founder representation of U.S.-based companies was published in May 2015. As the discussion on the lack of women in engineering teams gathered pace, we concluded that Crunchbase was uniquely placed to address the issue of women being represented in tech when it comes to founders.(TechCrunch)
Women are generally considered risk-averse. Startups require a person who embraces/is not afraid of risk of failure (since most startups tend to fail)
I don't get the implication? Are they saying that women aren't as willing to start a company? Because you really can't blame this on anyone but the group sitting this one out.