"...Don't get me wrong, the gender ratio is a hell of a lot better now than it was when I took my first tech-related job back in the early 90s, but to say that things are balanced ... well ... it's just not true.  My dear friend Christine Herron, an accomplished business woman turned VC, has for some years now made it a practice to count the number of women in the room at any given event or conference. Based on her relatively strong statistical analysis for an array of major technology industry confabs, it would seem that we women have hovered at about an 11 percent participation at such gatherings for several years now.

I've heard word that investors are specifically seeking female entrepreneurs yet of the hundreds they meet in any given year, only about 2 percent are women.

Why?"

--Cathy Brooks, writing in the new feminist blog, BitchBuzz.