Jacquot

YES! I'm 5'0" and it took me about 10 years to find a bike I could stand over--just barely. Clearance? That would be great! Part of the issue was that, searching online for small bikes, I could only find really small ones at very high prices, twice my budget at the time. I could not justify investing that much when I didn't even know if I'd like the sport. If you ask me, these are two huge barriers for women in the sport. The cost of just trying the sport and the terror of trying to ride trails when you can't stop without tilting the bike WAY over to the side (with your foot perhaps off the trail, in a hole). I finally found a small bike (used, through Pinkbike) but it would have been fantastic to be able to demo and compare and figure out what would suit the type of riding I like. Instead, I just bought the first one I found with a workably low standover. I should add that I'm a lifelong road cyclist and it wasn't until women-specific bikes came on the market that I got a bike I could stand over. But doing that on mountain bike singletrack is a completely different and terrifying experience.