March 10, 2021
The W.E. Cornell program, which aims to improve gender representation in entrepreneurship, is launching its spring cohort as industries reckon with the inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In our third year, we have trained over 100 STEM women to expose them to entrepreneurship to build the next generation of transformations that can impact society,” said program director and Cornell Engineering lecturer, Andrea Ippolito ’06, M.Eng. ’07.
“Women represent 50% of society and we need to do a better job of engaging half of our population to fuel and propel the economy forward,” she said. “We know from data that the greatest job growth in the U.S. is occurring from startups and small businesses, so this program helps drive economic growth.”