What Women Want from AI

Elena, writing about a New York Times article featuring Marissa Mayer headlined "What Do Women Want From A.I.?," criticizes the piece for framing AI's value to women around outfit picking, birthday planning, and household management rather than building companies and economic independence. She cites PitchBook data that female-founded companies raised just 1.1% of US VC money in 2025 ($3.2B from all-female teams across 794 deals versus $191.1B from all-male teams across 10,048 deals) and points to Lovable's SheBuilds hackathon projects like MedRamp, The CommYOUnity, and Playher as evidence of what women actually build. She argues such framing shapes who believes technology is for them and calls on the Times to ask what women want to build and change.