No big revelation here. Any woman who has been at a tech start up knows that there are usually few women. Every now and then, though, I am truly stunned by the male-female ratios, like this photo I found today about the Boston TechCrunch MeetUp:

I counted all of 5 women. Really 6, but one looks like she is serving drinks, so I am guessing she works for the caterer.

Since I work for a startup (two women out of twenty-seven employees), I am very curious about this phenomenon. I have a friend (male) who works for Cisco who says that in the division he works (cable), it is the same — few to no women.

Anybody care to chime in on reasons, theories, contra-indicators??