This study is meaningless without more data to make it an apples to apples comparison.<p>There is no pay gap if you control for occupation and experience. Similarly, my guess is this supposed equity gap would disappear if you control for these factors.<p>The section on founders is interesting, but by making the comparison about the calculated monetary value rather than the equity percentage and without looking at possible differences in the types of companies and associated valuations, it’s also not very meaningful.
The study doesn't compare equity held by men and women in same position, but total equity. There is a huge imbalance in equity held by founders/execs most of which are men.
> In 2017, women earned 80% of what men earned, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of median hourly earnings of both full and part-time workers in the United States.<p>Second sentence tells you that you can't take this article seriously.
Somewhat unrelated to the post, but I recently saw a news article about how the USA women's soccer players make less than the men's USA soccer players. The author was trying to insinuate it's inherently sexist an example of the gender biased wage gap.<p>Seems obvious to me why men's soccer players make more. They generate more revenue. It's basic economics and business. Unless it can be proven that the USA women's soccer and men's team bring in the same revenues for matches, advertising, etc it's an absurd thesis that it is sexist and gender wage bias. Furthermore it promotes the rampant alienation and villainization of men as a whole without being factually accurate and following the basic rules of economics and successful business.
in tech, if there are successful pushes for women in the companies, then the success would be seen more recently, in which case they would have less equity than existing holders which would contain less women.<p>this also doesn't account for how the candidates negotiate their salaries to begin with, HIRED has this data in their diversity report.<p>similarly, further funding rounds would dilute people even more<p>which takes me to some worthwhile further investigation of the female founders roles, aside from how things may be negotiated there may be a factor of needing additional funding rounds given challenges of being taken seriously? I would need to know how many separate events of dilution took place by the time of this analysis<p>thoughts?
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