Insight: Tech start-ups show little imagination on board gender diversity

By Sarah McBride and Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - At Pinterest, the four-year-old online bulletin board service that is valued near $3.8 billion, some 70 percent of the users are female. Male-heavy boards dominate in the start-up mecca of Silicon Valley, which prides itself on progressive thinking and putting talent first. A Reuters survey of the 10 top venture-backed start-ups, as measured by venture funds raised, shows that six do not have any women on the board, including Pinterest. Reuters' research relied on publicly available data and discussions with start-up executives and board members.

via Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/insight-tech-start-ups-show-little-imagination-board-134051058--sector.html