It is an open secret that women are outsiders when it comes to tech entrepreneurship, both in the developed and developing economies. In 1984, 37 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees were awarded to women. From there on, this number fell consistently, ebbing to a mere 12 percent in 2012. Female founders in tech also remain quite a rarity. For example, in Silicon Valley fewer than five percent of venture-backed startups are female-founded. This ratio, me ager as it already is, falls to two percent when including global tech hubs. It approaches zero percent where I come from – Pakistan.

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