The odds are truly
against women founders.
Not exact matches
Whether you look at straight demographic statistics, listen to the testimony in the recent sexual harassment suit
against storied VC firm Kleiner Perkins, or talk to female
founders about their experiences fundraising, the picture you get of the industry's openness to
women isn't the rosiest.
«We have a whole generation of young people who don't know that abuse is wrong, and who are learning about sex from pornography,» says Natalie Collins, domestic abuse survivor and
founder of Spark, a consultancy preventing violence
against women.
For every robot enthusiast, like artificial intelligent expert and Love and Sex With Robots author David Levy, who predicts human - robot marriages within in the next few decades, there's a naysayer, like Kathleen Richardson,
founder of the Campaign
Against Sex Robots, who worries that «the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and
women, adults and children, men and men and
women and
women.»
Speaking on his internet videocast «Goodnight with George Galloway», the Respect MP said one of the
women who is making allegations
against Assange was «already in the sex game» because she had slept with the Wikileaks
founder earlier that evening.
Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler,
founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence
against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.
In a Comment accompanying the Series, former US President Jimmy Carter,
founder of The Carter Center says, «It is my hope that political and religious leaders will step forward and use their influence to communicate clearly that violence
against women and girls must stop, that we are failing our societies, and that the time for leadership is now.»
Ms. Alexander is the
founder of a 501C - 3 Non-Profit Charity that supports and works with various organizations to help educate and prevent abuse
against women, children and animals.
The
founder of Where White People Meet defended the dating website
against critics calling it racist, saying he dated a black
woman once.
Among them were Tarana Burke (
founder of the resurgent #MeToo movement), Saru Jayaraman (a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers), Billie Jean King (tennis champion and
founder of the
Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority wo
Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence
against black and minority
womenwomen).
Four more
women from the Austin film scene have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault
against Harry Knowles, the influential
founder of film site Ain't It Cool News.
Hindi initially voiced his frustration with the Bucks County SPCA and the
Women's Humane Society in March 2013, and again in April 2014, citing specifically 102 years of alleged inaction
against the Philadelphia Gun Club by the Bucks County SPCA, founded in 1912, and 99 years of alleged inaction by the
Women's Humane Society, following the 1916 death of
founder Carolyn Earle White.