I may be reading between the lines on something you don't intend, but it seems like this data, in isolation of control variables, could just end up with an incorrect clickbait conclusion that YC is sexist.
For example, someone already made the point that many of these founders who could raise on just an idea were likely on their second go around or prior FANG employees. Most founders have historically been male (not saying this is good - just matter of fact) and only 17% of engineers at Google are female (and I think it goes without saying that YC has a bias towards engineers).
So if YC has an explicit positive bias towards second time founders and FAANG employees, you could easily see what appears to be anti-female bias, but in reality is just positive indexing towards other attributes that historically skewed male. This may or may not be the case, and there probably are instances where there is implicit bias towards non-positive male-associated traits (macho attitude? unwarranted overconfidence?) but this data in isolation doesn't tell us much.
I'm not saying that diversity is bad, or that we shouldn't be looking to increase female representation in the founder community, but we should be careful with understanding cause vs correlation and maintain intellectual honesty when looking at statistics.
For example, someone already made the point that many of these founders who could raise on just an idea were likely on their second go around or prior FANG employees. Most founders have historically been male (not saying this is good - just matter of fact) and only 17% of engineers at Google are female (and I think it goes without saying that YC has a bias towards engineers).
So if YC has an explicit positive bias towards second time founders and FAANG employees, you could easily see what appears to be anti-female bias, but in reality is just positive indexing towards other attributes that historically skewed male. This may or may not be the case, and there probably are instances where there is implicit bias towards non-positive male-associated traits (macho attitude? unwarranted overconfidence?) but this data in isolation doesn't tell us much.
I'm not saying that diversity is bad, or that we shouldn't be looking to increase female representation in the founder community, but we should be careful with understanding cause vs correlation and maintain intellectual honesty when looking at statistics.