"There’s still too little diversity at the top" is such a stupid statement given the fact that you are talking about "unicorns", some 0.14% of VC backed companies get to a billion dollars.
By that very definition of "normal" shouldn't really apply should it? These companies and their circumstances are rare. So, you're talking about outliers.
Also, it conflates two very different issues. Performance and diversity. Obviously women can lead and do a fantastic job at top level positions. But, these companies weren't built with or by women at the top.
It's like talking about the fastest people to run 100m sprint, and then complaining that there isn't enough diversity at the top. The fact is, there are hundreds of men who have broke 10 seconds in the sprint, and the fastest female sprint was 10.49 in 1989. Usain Bolt is almost a full second faster than that.
Performance and diversity are vastly different things.
Hopefully more unicorn companies are built by women going forward, but it seems odd to complain that there isn't more diversity in a group that is defined by business value as the only metric.
By that very definition of "normal" shouldn't really apply should it? These companies and their circumstances are rare. So, you're talking about outliers.
Also, it conflates two very different issues. Performance and diversity. Obviously women can lead and do a fantastic job at top level positions. But, these companies weren't built with or by women at the top.
It's like talking about the fastest people to run 100m sprint, and then complaining that there isn't enough diversity at the top. The fact is, there are hundreds of men who have broke 10 seconds in the sprint, and the fastest female sprint was 10.49 in 1989. Usain Bolt is almost a full second faster than that.
Performance and diversity are vastly different things.
Hopefully more unicorn companies are built by women going forward, but it seems odd to complain that there isn't more diversity in a group that is defined by business value as the only metric.