In my experience people who've never been in a startup don't know what it's like. Therefore their decisions are based on prejudice. And since most men, as most

In my experience people who've never been in a startup don't know what it's like. Therefore their decisions are based on prejudice. And since most men, as most women, also refrain from trying to start their own company or follow their passion (even though both are very common desires) due to their fears and the social context they've grown up in, I think that if one were to alter the growth of startups from women (as men) one must focus first on deconstructing the prejudices and, in particular, just helping people to start. I think that YC has done a very good job of that.