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When female founders face pressure to add male leadership

Our startup's all-female founding team is getting pressure from investors to bring on a male co-founder for 'credibility' and we're split on whether to do it — some of us think it's pragmatic and others think it undermines everything we're trying to prove about women building companies.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Women entrepreneurs are confronting the choice between compromising their vision of female leadership and accessing the resources they need to succeed.

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