Women taking their place in Iran’s tech startups
DEC 14, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029445
Forbes : More than 70% of the science and technology students in Iran are women despite demands to make some courses male only (see Anger as Iran bans women from universities , The Daily Telegraph 20 August 2012). Many women in Iran run their own businesses, and with the relaxation on trade sanctions, there is a new push to get highly qualified women graduates into creating or joining high-tech start ups. In a recent round of venture capital funding, 10% of the applicants were from women. As one female entrepreneur tells Forbes, “Nowadays, there are so many women who say – I have the education, and the opportunity – why should I work for someone else?”
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