Female entrepreneurs are less in numbers and manage to procure less investment as compared to their male counterparts. Women make only 10 percent of founders in giant tech companies or high performing startups and “and they raise 70 percent less money than men do because of their lack of access to capital,” says Lesa Mitchell of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, vice president for initiatives on advancing innovation.

Carley Roney, co-founder of XO Group, a publicly traded media company which was valued at $300 million, is also a mother of three children says “Venture capitalists will assert that a female entrepreneur’s pregnancy and motherhood aren’t factors in deciding whether to invest in a firm — that it’s all about good ideas and the management team. But I can pretty much guarantee you, behind closed doors it is a factor.” Hence she says “in those first moments of having a business and having a baby, the baby was a complete and total secret.”