As educator, edtech investor, and ecosystem advocate, I have had the sincere delight to work with, teach, advise, coach, and invest in a multitude of women over the last thirty years. I am also married to a woman and am a parent of two young women who are on the cusp of undergraduate pursuits. My experience tells me that if you want something done, women get there first, with less ego and posturing in the wake of execution, and with an empathy that builds a scalable culture. But, that’s just my opinion.
The fact is that education is driven considerably more by women than men, by a 2-to-1 margin or more. The fact that many women have started or are starting edtech solutions to the problems they have encountered is no real surprise. Veteran edtech leader Bobbie Kurshan and Penn GSE Doctoral Candidate Cat McManus opined on the subject in Forbes here.
Women are increasingly entrepreneurial. The facts underline this. The problem is that the purse strings that might unlock growth capital are majority controlled by white men in blue coats or perhaps blue shirts. While some have successfully navigated this male-dominated, syndication-dependent investment network, this is changing all too slowly.
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