--- title: Here is what women want from AI. | daily.dev description: Elena Verna criticizes a New York Times article featuring Marissa Mayer that framed what women want from AI as help with outfits, birthday parties, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/here-is-what-women-want-from-ai--ew4exwphg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Here is what women want from AI. | daily.dev og:description: Elena Verna criticizes a New York Times article featuring Marissa Mayer that framed what women want from AI as help with outfits, birthday parties, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/here-is-what-women-want-from-ai--ew4exwphg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ew4EXwpHg.png og:image:alt: Here is what women want from AI. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Here is what women want from AI. **[Elena's Growth Scoop](https://daily.dev/sources/elenaverna)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Elena Verna criticizes a New York Times article featuring Marissa Mayer that framed what women want from AI as help with outfits, birthday parties, and household management. She argues this framing reinforces narrow expectations instead of highlighting AI's potential to close the funding gap, since female-founded companies raised only 1.1% of US VC money in 2025 ($3.2B vs $191.1B for all-male teams). She points to Lovable's SheBuilds hackathon, where women built products like MedRamp and Playher, as evidence AI can remove barriers to building companies. She calls for AI to help women gain economic independence, wealth, and influence rather than just manage chores. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of US venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2025? All-female founding teams raised just 1.1% of US venture capital money in 2025, according to PitchBook data cited by Elena Verna. That amounted to $3.2 billion across 794 deals, compared with $191.1 billion across 10,048 deals for all-male founding teams, highlighting a massive funding gap between genders in startup investment. _Founders tracking funding gaps and startup trends can follow this kind of analysis on daily.dev._ ### What is Lovable's SheBuilds hackathon and what have participants built with it? SheBuilds is Lovable's women-focused hackathon, now in its fourth season, where hundreds of women turn ideas into working products using AI tools. Past projects include MedRamp, a travel nurse onboarding tool built by Franziska Galiè, The CommYOUnity, a virtual community center for Black teenage girls built by Dr. Tracie Q. Gilbert, and Playher, an AI coaching platform for girls in sports built by Meg O'Keefe. _Developers exploring AI-assisted no-code building can find similar project stories on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Elena Verna on AI growth: Automate the basics, elevate the creative](https://daily.dev/posts/elena-verna-on-ai-growth-automate-the-basics-elevate-the-creative-rbna1ulng) · Atlassian · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’](https://daily.dev/posts/why-this-vc-thinks-2026-will-be-the-year-of-the-consumer--vqu88gf3w) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI needs fewer Iron Men and more Smart Hulks](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-needs-fewer-iron-men-and-more-smart-hulks-vfgr0mt60) · Christian Heilmann · 5 upvotes · 1 comments - [AI Reality vs AI Hype: 3 Things This Week Made Me Rethink About AI](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-reality-vs-ai-hype-3-things-this-week-made-me-rethink-about-ai-wmltv4ysq) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Marissa Mayer defends asking her AI app what makes her daughter special](https://daily.dev/posts/marissa-mayer-defends-asking-her-ai-app-what-makes-her-daughter-special-2r0nszog1) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#venture-capital](https://daily.dev/tags/venture-capital), [#women-in-tech](https://daily.dev/tags/women-in-tech), [#lovable](https://daily.dev/tags/lovable) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/here-is-what-women-want-from-ai--ew4exwphg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Here is what women want from AI.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/here-is-what-women-want-from-ai--ew4exwphg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/here-is-what-women-want-from-ai--ew4exwphg"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T19:10:39.746Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T19:53:21.271Z","description":"Elena Verna criticizes a New York Times article featuring Marissa Mayer that framed what women want from AI as help with outfits, birthday parties, and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/adccb41def5628ee78cc4dc7eb8d9403?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/adccb41def5628ee78cc4dc7eb8d9403?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Elena's Growth Scoop","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Elena's Growth Scoop","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--aFknGyPH--/f_auto/v1754225900/logos/elenaverna","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/elenaverna"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/here-is-what-women-want-from-ai--ew4exwphg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,venture-capital,women-in-tech,lovable","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Elena's Growth Scoop","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/elenaverna"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Here is what women want from AI."}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/here-is-what-women-want-from-ai--ew4exwphg#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What percentage of US venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2025?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"All-female founding teams raised just 1.1% of US venture capital money in 2025, according to PitchBook data cited by Elena Verna. 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