May 2004
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h
English
book
Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses
by Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, Myra M. Hart
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CHAPTER 5•WOMEN AND HUMAN CAPITAL 95
Sorting Fact from Fiction
There’s a profile in the venture world of what a successful
entrepreneur looks like . . . It’s someone who’s aggressive, very
competitive, and hard-driving. A lot of those are typical male
characteristics. A woman may have those qualities, but the
way she demonstrates them may be very different.
So what you’ll hear from VCs is “She doesn’t have the
characteristics we’re looking for in a CEO.”
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—Jennifer Gill Roberts, a general partner at Sevin Rosen Funds
What are the facts? Is it true that women are less qualified to lead high-
growth firms? A quick review of the history of women in the workplace
will help us answer this question. Over the last four decades, women
joined the labor force in ...
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