Editor’s Note: Great guest post @ TechCrunch by Aileen Lee, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, about the disproportionate share of men on corporate boards and the importance of seeing this trend change…
Good questions have been asked lately of tech companies without gender diversity on their boards of directors. While women comprise 51% of the population, they make up only 15.7% of Fortune 500 boards of directors, less than 10% of California tech company boards, and 9.1% of Silicon Valley boards.
Why should we care? For one, women are the power users of many products and it’s just smart business to have an understanding of key customers around the table. Could you imagine a game company without any gamers on the leadership team or board?
Read more @ TechCrunch.
Also see Lee’s post “Why Women Rule the Internet” @ TechCrunch from March of 2011.
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