With the rise of all-male-founded AI startups, there’s been a noticeable increase in pictures of hackathons flooding social media. Having been around for a while and reported on issues affecting female founders and the gender gap in tech, it was no surprise to see things become heated on LinkedIn last week around a debate about the relative absence of women from these events.
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