{"id":29225,"date":"2021-01-26T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29225"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:41:55","slug":"the-globe-and-mail-before-venture-capital-can-have-its-full-impact-it-must-fix-its-own-equity-issues","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/fr\/news\/the-globe-and-mail-before-venture-capital-can-have-its-full-impact-it-must-fix-its-own-equity-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Globe and Mail: Before venture capital can have its full impact, it must fix its own equity issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-draftjs-conductor-fragment=\"{&quot;blocks&quot;:[{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;cs0dh&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;In the tech industry where I work, inequality is nothing new. 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It\u2019s no secret that women, compared with men, are <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"foo-1-0\">underpaid<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"foo-2-0\">, <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"foo-3-0\">underrepresented<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"foo-4-0\"> as a proportion of the population and, as founders, significantly underfunded by investors.\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jwLWP _2hXa7 _30PMG blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"editor\" data-offset-key=\"3k30t-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3k30t-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3k30t-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jwLWP _2hXa7 _30PMG blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"editor\" data-offset-key=\"296om-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"296om-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"296om-0-0\">In this op-ed Maria Pacella provides insight into the inequalities that plague Venture Capital. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jwLWP _2hXa7 _30PMG blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"editor\" data-offset-key=\"am7gi-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"am7gi-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"am7gi-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jwLWP _2hXa7 _30PMG blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"editor\" data-offset-key=\"580j0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"580j0-0-0\"><a class=\"_2qJYG blog-link-hashtag-color iPHwd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-before-venture-capital-can-have-its-full-impact-it-must-fix-its-own\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-offset-key=\"580j0-0-0\">Click to read<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"fund-type":[],"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-29225","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Globe and Mail: Before venture capital can have its full impact, it must fix its own equity issues - PenderFund Capital Management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/fr\/news\/the-globe-and-mail-before-venture-capital-can-have-its-full-impact-it-must-fix-its-own-equity-issues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Globe and Mail: Before venture capital can have its full impact, it must fix its own equity issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;In the tech industry where I work, inequality is nothing new. 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