All Raise's Founders For Change initiative, for example, and new female-focused funds, like Sarah Kunst's Cleo Capital, are all working to close the gender funding gap.
It helps if you're male too, at least according to all the data out there on the gender funding gap in VC.
A $50m gender equality fund to "strengthen the importance and priority of empowering women" was announced in the budget and an emergency fund of $120m will be retained by Australia to deal with global emergencies.
Her work also took her to Cameroon, where she worked with women's rights organizations to implement a Gender Transformative Fund from the German Technical Corporation in the field of gender-based violence, with a special focus on rape, HIV, and breast ironing.
Challenge: Gender discrimination, funding for films.
Data on gender, age, funding status (home or overseas), any previous degree and marks are routinely collected during the selection and degree assessment processes.
A notable finding is that fellows who reported more structure to their postdoctoral fellowship also reported higher satisfaction with their training, lower conflicts, and higher productivity than those reporting less structure, even when controlling for other factors such as gender, citizenship, funding, field, and institution (Davis, 2005).
The solution is to remove the middle class from the welfare roles and do away with gender-based funding incentives.
Even in the places that do fund gender reassignment surgery, also known as "gender-affirming" surgery, the wait-times and red tape to get them, as well as the recommended preceding hormone treatments, can put lives at risk.
Demand data from those you fund: Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.
Professor Ruenzi said he thought the negative effect of gender diversity on fund performance could be traced in large part to the poorer communication that often exists in mixed teams.
