Women direct $35 T in spending yet own little AI equity. Here’s why that must change—and three no-brainer ways to start, including tomorrow’s free info session that you do not want to miss!

By Rose Kaz

TL;DR
We already bankroll the marketplace, so why are we missing the AI payday? Grab the facts, the tools, and a free seat at tomorrow’s info session—because #Tequity surely won’t build itself and neither will the tech bros. Just sayin'!

We Own the Checkout—Now Let’s Own the Cloud Ladies. Let's get IN formation!

Women make up 50.5 % of the U.S. population and steer roughly $35 trillion in global consumer-goods spending—half of every household purchase- FinanceBuzz. In America we sway 85 % of buying decisions, and our 12 million women-owned firms pump $2.1 trillion into annual receipts- Forbes Census.
Big City / Major Economic Hub roll-call?
New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago alone host more than 83 000 women-owned employer firms yep, that’s also Census data !
Bottom line: We are the market; pretending AI is someone else’s lane hands the upside to, well, someone else.

Capital Is Moving—Fast

TechCrunch’s deal tracker logs nine-figure AI rounds almost weekly—model ops platforms, synthetic-data shops, you name it - TechCrunch AI . Meanwhile, the Pentagon just direct-commissioned execs from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir as lieutenant colonels-no boot camp required- Business Insider. Simply stated: code is now combat power. And if we ladies are still on the sidelines, we’ll be clapping from the cheap seats while someone else compounds our future wealth. And when I say cheap seats, I don't think they have any view or even a glass ceiling. 

Women-Led AI Is the Next Alpha

We women founders are building AI tools for caregiving, education, and climate resilience because we live those pain points every day. Check out Catherine Gray's recent LinkedIn article . What might be the return on investment? Lemme just say....huuuuge! Historically higher when portfolios include female leadership. Investors who ignore women-in-AI startups are basically leaving money—and impact—on the table. Just sayin'

Ethics + AI = #Tequity

Unchecked models encode bias. The Algorithmic Justice League keeps flagging how face-rec systems mis-label women of color and résumé-screeners ghost mothers. The AJL was founded by Dr.Joy Buolamwini , the MIT Media Lab researcher and AI-ethics activist nicknamed the “poet of code.” Dr. Buolamwini is a Rhodes Scholar, a Fulbright fellow , a Stamps Scholar, an Astronaut Scholar , and an Anita Borg Institute scholar. Simply stated, Dr. B did not come to play.

As with all other avenues of my business and its future effective May of 2020, I only take my leadership ques from women of color. Period. Dr. Joy Buolamwini's work inspired me to take my own credentials up a notch and engage with MIT's AI program. And many late night study sessions and an insane amount of stats later, I'm thrilled to share I'm officially certified by a big fancy tech institute to talk about AI- not like I've been quietly studying for 6 years on my own or anything but now the powers that currently be say I'm legit. lol. I've got much catching up to Dr. B and I'm glad to be learning from leaders like her because inclusive design isn’t “nice to have”; it’s a risk-management must not to mention profitable without being exclusionary or extractive. 

My consultancy firm, Business 4 Good we calls this #Tequity—tech that scales everyone, not just the usual suspects.
Hold me accountable on LinkedIn. Feel free to peek my credentials aka receipts because I am here to show ya'll we can engage with technology without a PhD in coding.

The $12 Trillion Prize

McKinsey’s landmark analysis—How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth — forecasts that closing the gender wealth gap would inject $12 trillion into world GDP as early as 2026.

If we women let AI surge ahead without us, and we effectively hand that compound-interest windfall to someone else. Every algorithm we don’t help design, every cap-table we don’t join, every equity grant we let slide is lost velocity on an economy we already bankroll. The World Economic Forum warns, women’s under-representation in AI leadership is so much more than an HR issue—it’s an incredible drag on innovation, product safety, and long-term growth. Like seriously.
 

McKinsey goes on to peg the global GDP boost from closing the gender wealth gap at $12 trillion—by next year. So basically if ladies let AI move on & be built without us is like giving away compound interest on an entire economy. My ex once called this work a “cute hobby.” LOL. Hard pass. I cannot wait to be thinking of that in 10 years when I am counting my coin. #byeboy

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Listen, we’re already holding the wallet. Let’s hold the code—and the equity—too!

⚡️LFG!
Rose

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