Although women account for only 17.8 percent of the participants in college venture competitions, they win the greatest amount of prize money, according to a report titled “The Entrepreneurship Talent Gap” that was released by the Greenwich-based nonprofit Girls with Impact.
“The bottom line: it pays to have women on your team,” said David Noble, executive director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Consortium at the University of Connecticut and co-author of the report. “Too many biases exist with the assumption that women aren”™t as good as men. This is another nail in the gender bias coffin.”