04/18/2024

Silicon Valley’s Race and Gender Inequality is Worse Than You Think

On Thursday, Mother Jones collected three jarring snapshots of Silicon Valley’s much-discussed (but largely under-studied) disparities between individuals of different genders and races.
The magazine credits Catherine Bracy, who ran President Barack Obama’s Bay Area field office during his 2012 re-election campaign, with digging up the statistics.
The first two data sets actually use numbers from the entire state of California (with the majority of startups located in the Bay Area) compiled by CB Insights from January-June 2010. They found that:

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