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Is this a stated intention? [ref?] It seems more to be a nice consequence of their approach - to attract great talent.

pg mentioned in the article that he wants to increase the number of female founders.

How does this correlate to the general, non-YC population of female founders? More, less, or same as average? That's an important data calibrator. Without that, it's hard to judge if YC is better than, worse than, or average, good intentions or not. Without having any real data, I'm guessing maybe marginally better than average given that it's probably in the single digits on average?

Thank you for this. Is there data on applicants? It would be useful to compare the ratios of male founders applied-to-accepted vs female founders applied-to-accepted.

Exactly. The data are useless without a proper control pool to compare against.