Did anyone survey female founders who consciously leveraged their sexuality to their benefit? I’m a gay man in the VC world and this happens to me regularly.
Can you clarify what "this happens" refers to? What happens to you regularly?
Doe eyed conventionally attractive women with mediocre pitch decks, usually for fluffy consumer goods (“Warby Parker for mascara”, “Casper for Yoga Mats,” “purse with a battery in it”), showing up to pitch in high heels with tight shirts. All. The. Time.
My other related question; why did they survey only females? It seems like a report of combined and gender separated statistics would have also served the same purpose. If (as I suspect, but we have no numbers to back it up) females are disproportionately targeted by VCs, wouldn't this have made a stronger case than surveying only women?
I believe you that it does happen, and while it’s an interesting phenomenon it lacks the power dynamic that the other way around involves.
Tell that to conventionally unattractive women with pitch decks. You’re missing the power dynamic attractive women wield over less attractive women. They love the status quo. It gets them jobs and money and power at the expense of short, overweight, unattractive women. It’s why “attractiveness” is a much stronger single variable indicator of success than “gender”. Nth wave feminists rarely talk about this.