Women business owners receive significantly less early stage investment, while on average deliver more than twice as much pay back for investors, making women-owned companies better investments for financial backers. On the other hand, according to the recent Baltic Startup Scene Report (https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/2020-report-baltic-startup-scene-shines-after-a-lackluster-2019/) Looking at data from the past 2 years, the Baltics have the same 13% diversity ratio as for the past 20 years, indicating that little to no progress has been made in improving the diversity of founding teams. There are a number of networking groups for women in Lithuania who are aiming to change that. Including Women go tech mentorship program and the Alter state: https://www.alterstate.org. Today we speak with Justina Klyvienė. She is the founder and managing partner of the Future Leadership innovation lab and a co-founder of the Alter State, a global community for women willing to innovate. Justina is also an organiser of the First Women Innovation sprint in Lithuania. Women enterpreneurship extra links: - EU commission https://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/supporting-entrepreneurship/women-entrepreneurs_en - BCG Why Women-Owned Startups Are a Better Bet https://www.bcg.com/de-de/publications/2018/why-women-owned-startups-are-better-bet - ‘‘I Feel Like I Have Five Jobs’: Moms Navigate the Pandemic’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/parenting/childcare-coronavirus-moms.html - A New Covid-19 Crisis: Domestic Abuse Rises Worldwide https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/world/coronavirus-domestic-violence.html - Gender pay in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/gender-equality/equal-pay/gender-pay-gap-situation-eu_en - Human rights in Lithuania: https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia/lithuania/report-lithuania/ - 2020 Report: Baltic startup scene shines after a lackluster 2019 https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/2020-report-baltic-startup-scene-shines-after-a-lackluster-2019/ Thanks to all the team including our language editor Sean Donovan, our sound editor Gabriele Valodskaite, our designer Milda Sukyte and host Ruta Naujokaite. And our partners Global Lithuanian Leaders and LRT. You can listen to all our interviews directly on Lithuanian dream podcast website: www.lithuaniandreampodcast.com/episodes Lithuanian Dream Podcast is the most popular Lithuanian podcast in English Our goal is bringing Lithuania to the world and the world to Lithuania. Every Wednesday we release new episodes with the leaders from businesses, politics and culture. We are supported by Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT and Global Lithuanian Leaders (GLL). Find all our episodes here: www.lithuaniandreampodcast.com/episodes Every wednesday we have a new episode ready for you. SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter: www.lithuaniandreampodcast.com/newsletter Facebook: www.facebook.com/LithuanianDreamPodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/lithuanian_dream_podcast/?hl=en Twitter: twitter.com/lithuaniandream?lang=en Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/lithuaniandreampodcast/ For questions, contact us: labas@lithuaniandreampodcast.com