Her success also got more press than anyone else, males included. She was a darling of the media for a long time. Here's her gracing the cover of Fortune magazine, with some puff piece inside: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CF09f1LVEAAG-oL.jpg

Also, "Silicon Valley unicorn is essentially a fraud" is inherently more interesting (in a click-bait / gossipy kind of way), then just a random success story. Rajat Gupta is one of the few Goldman Sachs partners I'm aware of, and it's because he went to jail.