When I started writing this book, several people suggested Silicon Valley couldn’t possibly harbor more gender inequity than Wall Street. When it comes to the numbers, those people are simply wrong. Women account for almost half of employees at the top U.S. banks (though banks still have work to do when it comes to promoting women into leadership positions). One Goldman Sachs banker turned entrepreneur, Nicole Farb, told me she felt far more isolated as a woman trying to raise funds in Silicon Valley than she ever did in finance. “I think the investment banks are more forward thinking than the
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