the reason there are zero female tech billionaires (Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is the only female billionaire connected to tech that I know of, and she is an executive and politician, not a technologist or programmer) is that only early-stage startup founders have the kind of equity that means they can hit the jackpot if their company succeeds (after having made the sacrifice of time and life it takes to get the company up), and in our current environment, women are not supported by venture capital and angel investors if they have the barest whiff of mommy about them.
I’ve been sniffed out on the baby front from a potential investor as a man as well. “I see rings on your fingers [2 of 3 co-founders], do you have kids? Are you planning to?” Didn’t get that funding, perhaps for other reasons, but this probably didn’t help (we didn’t lie).
