It's self-sustaining at this point. I wouldn't bother with an accelerator largely because I know I wouldn't find a social fit, and the informal connections are

It's self-sustaining at this point. I wouldn't bother with an accelerator largely because I know I wouldn't find a social fit, and the informal connections are so much of the value prop. If YC had 25% women, they'd get to 40% pretty quickly. But so long as they're <5%, it's going to asymptotically approach 0%. Also I'm confident that biases would factor into not only YC selection, but also (and more importantly) the investors who traditionally work with YC companies, since they just don't see women outside of "fem-tech" and fashion, in part because that's how YC selects. My perspective may be as much a product of my pattern recognition of consistently having to deal with sexism as it is the valley being sexist, but either way I'm just done with it.