Opinion

November 8, 2019

Female entrepreneurs are being let down by other women

The lack of women at the venture capital level is a drop in the ocean compared to the bigger problem: women are not supporting other women in business.


Successful Italian entrepreneur Benedetta Arese Lucini, one of the co-founders of Oval Money.

We women talk a great talk about supporting other women in business. We gather in rooms to share or listen to stories of female entrepreneurs overcoming the odds; we march for gender equality and have witnessed the rise of great organisations doing their best to boost women’s economic empowerment. But for all this effort, we women don’t actually invest in other women. Let’s put it even more bluntly: women are often not putting their money where their mouth is.

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