Quite an interesting piece about gender bias and venture capitalism.

I thought this Op-Ed relevant to the class because one team wrote their paper on venture capitalism.  So while we haven't discussed it in class, it is something students should be aware of.  The author has quite strong credentials to write this piece:

"I have seen it up close in the two worlds I know best: Wall Street, where I was chief executive of Smith Barney and of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, and in Silicon Valley, where I’ve raised money to run my start-up, Ellevest."

What she describes is a kind of market failure based on gender bias.  Hmmm.

The Cost of Devaluing Women - The New York Times via kwout