U. S. and Europe’s approach to foreign students is to westernize them in a way of educating future leaders.

The idea that educating future leaders from other nations will make them more Western has long guided the U. S. and Europe’s generous approach to foreign students of high and low parentage but not everyone thinks it works.

No amount of confidence changes the fact that Silicon valley’s big venture capitalists are almost entirely male. The top five don’t have any female senior partners, and VC partners are 96 percent male. Twenty years ago, the partners were 97 percent male.