In Her Own Words: Tracy Young’s ‘chain reaction of inspiration’ - Bizwomen

There are things about our world and society that deeply upset me. When I look at leadership across companies, and leadership across countries, it looks predominantly male. When I read stats, I see disparities like the gender pay gap or how women founders only received 2% of total venture capital funding in all of 2022. If we believe that hard work, intelligence, talent and leadership are not dependent on gender — and there’s no reason for us to believe otherwise — then that means our world is missing out on a lot of hardworking, self-identifying women who can improve it. The problems of our time can feel overwhelming and massive. In the midst of multiple irreversible world crises, I can’t help but wonder what a different world it would be if men and women, who make up equal halves of humanity, also made up equal halves of leadership. When that happens, I wholeheartedly believe it will be a better world than we have today. For my children’s generation, I believe they will endure challe

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