“She Started It” Aims To Change Silicon Valley’s Gender Inequality Problem
by The Daily Eye Team June 27 2014, 7:33 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secsA NEW FILM FOCUSES ON WHAT MAKES FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS SUCCEED--AND INSPIRES THE NEXT GENERATION OF GIRLS TO FOLLOW SUIT. ?You can?t be what you can?t see? said Marie Wilson, founder of the former White House Project, in 2010, reminding everyone that unless we have role models we can look up and relate to, we may never know what we?re capable of. This is exactly what journalists Insiyah Saeed and Nora Poggi wanted to do with their film She Started It, which follows four female entrepreneurs over a year to show their journey from the beginning: ?building their products, putting it together, the happy moments and the ending on whatever the ending is,? Poggi tells Fast Company. The co-directors? hope for the film is to be able to show young girls that this type of success does exist and to get them thinking, ?Whoa, if she can do it, I can do it.?