I suspect it's more likely that there's just a lot of latent talent in women due to being undervalued. A female-only group is a coarse way to create an org that unlocks that value, but there are plenty of ways to do it in a mixed environment.

One that I'd like to see more of is a zero-tolerance policy for anyone who marginalizes women in the workplace (e.g. people who file tone complaints only against women, people who talk over women in meetings, supervisors who make gender-based promotions, women getting paid less due to "market rates" etc.) I see a lot of those things still happening in tech companies, which leads to women underperforming in mixed groups.

> I see a lot of those things still happening in tech companies, which leads to women underperforming in mixed groups.

It's an ironic tragedy of the commons.

There's a pretty big leap. Can you explain your reasoning a little more because I don't understand why it would logically follow, the answer to your question seems a simple "no" to me.

Single-sex schools have also proven successful,but research results are mixed and drowned in politics from both pro- and anti- camps.

I think the consensus is that single-sex schools don't work for everyone but in a broad sense (and somewhat counterintuitively to me) work better for a larger percentage of boys than the percentage of girls. Of course these are broad conclusions; those "success" percentages may be small (I haven't followed this work closely). Anecdoctally it was great for me while my sister considered it disastrous for herself.

Despite being happy with my single sex education, I'm really glad that scouting is finally been desegregated in the US as I noticed in scouting in Palo Alto that the boy scouts had much better opportunities than the Girl Scouts did. And I can be glad even though I did notice my son benefited from having a section of his life that was male-only. That will probably still be possible.

Those are totally different subjects.

The Canadian Navy did some work pre-2000 that showed when there were only a tiny handful of women on a ship, it was hard/stressful, but when there was a 'critical mass' of say 8% of the ship female, it worked out. So they could make some small adjustments to deployment rosters and get better performance.

So 'small minority groups' sometimes need a means to coalesce a little bit and work through issues etc..

VC/entrepreneurialism is way male oriented for whatever reason. Much more so than 'regular business'. So some kind of women's meetups or whatever might help.

'Gender segregation' in education is just another thing entirely. It's about focus, social development etc..

No.