Investors think they hand out money fairly. • The median investment by equity investors in all businesses is nearly $1 million. Investors are nearly three times as likely to review business opportunities pitched by men “very frequently” as those pitched by women — even though men are only 1.5 times more likely to own a business. • Investors could do more to change the dynamic. Of those polled, nearly 40 percent of men said investing in businesses owned by women was not a priority; 31 percent of white investors said it was not a priority to invest in minority-owned businesses.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2018 11:41 UTC