This might have been just a poor choice of words, but beware the naturalistic fallacy.
Trunk believes that more women are choosing not to do startups. That's not exactly the same thing as saying it's their "natural imperative". Because then those who choose otherwise are being "unnatural".
Also, the "natural imperative" thing implies that our current state of affairs is somehow the only possibility. Maybe the way investment works is currently broken somehow.
Yes, but she addresses this by pointing out that women now outperform men in many measures, including college, law school, med school and even income in their twenties. Is it possible that many women don't choose startups for the same reason many men don't choose nursing?
It's demeaning to suggest that women who choose not to do startups lack free will.
Do you believe that the conception of "natural imperative" she's using refers to a deterministic binary, and not a normal distribution with a somewhat shifted mean in relation to that of men?
Treating individuals as mere instances of categories is a bit absurd, isn't it?
Trunk believes that more women are choosing not to do startups. That's not exactly the same thing as saying it's their "natural imperative". Because then those who choose otherwise are being "unnatural".
Also, the "natural imperative" thing implies that our current state of affairs is somehow the only possibility. Maybe the way investment works is currently broken somehow.