First of all, Ms. McMahon, welcome to the Globe. I always welcome any new investment in feature-length/investigative journalism, and this piece is an interesting and welcome beginning. 

The Ms. Kimoura anecdote was telling. But most interesting to me was the subversion of meritocracy. I suspect there will be a lot of comments here about "women" (etc) trying to take down a successful system, "men built the world..." Only by rigging the game fellas. That's nothing to be proud of. 

Overall, you're getting into systemic issues re: opportunity, race, class, & bias, addressing these would require deep, deep social and educational changes to achieve. I am not sure these are possible under capitalism despite the best of intentions. But I'd say the the most promising solution lies with crowdsourcing, because it can ultimately be done anonymously. The crowd, given ACCURATE info, will wisely assess opportunity from "trusted" (i.e. earned rating) founders without needing to know gender/race etc.