Strategy question

How would you improve female participation on a fantasy gaming platform?

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What this question tests

Strategy for growing an underrepresented segment, requiring research into real barriers rather than assumptions about the audience.

Confirm the platform's current female participation rate and where in the funnel drop off happens.
Identify likely barriers: unwelcoming community tone, male dominated marketing, and lack of female led content.
Segment potential female users: casual players trying fantasy sports for the first time versus lapsed players who tried and left.
Prioritize the first time segment, since onboarding and first impression likely drive the biggest drop off.
Propose interventions: curated beginner leagues, safer community moderation, and marketing featuring real female players.
Define success with female sign up to first league completion rate, plus 90 day retention for that cohort.

Grounds the strategy in a likely, named barrier, community tone and marketing representation, not a vague appeal.
Segments first timers from lapsed users, since their barriers and fixes differ.
Sets a specific funnel metric, sign up to first league completion, to track the intervention's real impact.
Assumes an illustrative current participation rate, such as 15 percent, to frame the size of the gap.

Proposes a marketing only fix without addressing product or community experience.
Assumes the barrier without stating it would be validated through research first.

How would you validate these barriers before building anything?
How would you measure whether the community itself has become more welcoming?
Would you build a separate experience for new female users or improve the shared product?