The report, “Elephant in the Valley,” is based on interviews with women in leadership roles at startups, venture capital firms and large tech companies in the Bay Area. Almost 90 percent of the respondents said they’d had clients and colleagues address questions to male peers that should have been addressed to them and 47 percent said they’d been asked to do lower level tasks that male colleagues were not asked to do.
Another striking data point from the survey was that 60 percent of women had experienced unwanted sexual advances from someone at work over the course of their careers. In half of these cases, the unwanted advances happened more than once, and 65 percent of the time, they came from a superior.
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