“Sometimes your gender can hinder you from showing your ability because a prospect doesn’t believe you are capable,” president and co-founder of Artech Information Systems, Ranjini Poddar, said in a 2011 article in Entrepreneur.

Many women in the entrepreneurial world feel the exact same way. A 2018 poll conducted by Fast Company, a popular business magazine, found that more than half of female business owners said they “encountered some form of bias.”