“…analysts say more than social equity is at stake. A dearth of ideas and participation by women in the technology churn has business consequences as well.” (Also, reading about what chauvinist boys-club assholes so many venture capitalists are makes me angry every time.)

Sarah Millstein on the lack of women speakers at conferences. “Because some of you aren’t like me in your choices, there are profitable conferences with speaker rosters that look like roll call for the signers of the Constitution. But conferences that want to be taken seriously by people who take other kinds of people seriously need more diversity among the speakers to thrive. And conference organizers, whose goals often include highlighting new ideas, cannot simply recycle the same short list of well-known speakers from show to show.”