Emma Watson’s riveting speech at the United Nations for the He for She Campaign has made its way on different social media channels. She made a big emphasis on the lack of opportunities - educational, career or otherwise- for girls and women, especially in developing countries.
We at Wingpact fight a similar battle in our home in Silicon Valley. We’ve read numerous articles that state the lack of females in the C-level boardroom both at start-ups and Fortune 500s as well as the lack of female investors and entrepreneurs. When we, a band of 6 female angel investors, started to think about writing our book, we thought about our primary goal of not only encouraging high net-worth females to become angel investors themselves but also making our male counterparts aware of the gender gap in the investing ecosystem.
If you are one of our male readers, just imagine if your wife or daughter goes through the same challenges (most often in a form of sexual harassment) when starting their own businesses and pitching to male investors as mentioned on our previous blog post, “Just Don’t Try to Sleep with Me.” What are you going to do? As Emma purposely put it, “If not now, when?” The time to step up is now!
