How women entrepreneurs can overcome the gender funding gap

"A lot of people were taken by surprise recently when an ANZ report revealed the gender pay gap for women over their lifetime is about $700,000 - enough to buy a two-bedroom apartment in Sydney. As my co-founder and I have found since starting real estate agent comparison site OpenAgent, women entrepreneurs are also at a disadvantage when seeking investment funding for their businesses. In the US, women-led companies only receive 7% of the total venture capital funding despite having lower failure rates than male-led companies. Australia has the same problem, but what are the reasons behind this?" Read more

Zoe Pointon BRW 1 Oct 2015