[[Women in Entrepreneurship Lit Review]]
=Spring 2017=Upon revisiting this ==To-do==*prior**review/update lit review**industry and academic*Intro**Update stats to reflect 2017**citations**add something specifically about the importance of women in leadership in January 2017vc companies*Thesis/Issue Brief focus**This issue brief has two broad goals. First, it will examine the role of women in entrepreneurship fields today by researching their representation in leadership positions of VC-backed companies. Second, key things we need it will examine the effectiveness of current policy related to complete women in entrepreneurship.*Research**search in SDC to reflect the issue briefcurrent date rather than 2016***add industry/other variables**build SQL tables with the following parameters: group by state, role, city, msa, industry**relationship between women in leadership roles and performance of the firm, where performance measured by no rounds invested/ipo**state fix-effects*Policy**Trump's proposed policy changes that will impact vc-backed companies, entrepreneurship/innovation in general, women in the workplace=Spring 2016=
==The Paper==
===Introduction===