“Trying to found a company as a woman with a successful male partner is much easier than trying to found a company as a woman with a female partner, a woman with no partner, or a woman with a less successful male partner.”

How about trying to found a company as a woman with a successful female partner? Also, you should include sources.

“ This crops up all over the place; could a woman who hadn’t been married to a previous president realistically be running right now?”

You mean like Jill Stein? Unless, of course, by realistic you mean that the candidate has to be nominated by one of the patriarchy parties.