Reply to Dev. (maybe not the best but my opinion)

They have chosen it for women due to the low amount of women in the wordpress community trying to encourage to join as a career. I would just put it down to a simple supply and there is enough demand for this foundation to fund it. I mean if this was about products and one wasn't selling as well as another it would be equivalent of putting one on special.

But we can look at things differently and so yourself and others may take offense to this well myself and others don't. That is how I see it, assuming they are being open with their reasons which if they are not that is another discussion.