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Sorry for repeating myself, but why bring gender into it at all? If we have collectively decided that helping people with low self-confidence is a good thing,

• euyyn 10y ago
  It's much easier to make a study comparing women to men than one comparing "low self-confidence people" to "highly-confident people". Helping in the form of advice to the job seekers: as Mike said, the advice applies equally to the men in the same situation. Helping in the form of making employers aware, so they can optimize their job descriptions: It incidentally helps men of low self-confidence too. Notice, tough, that being socialized into assuming a requirement is hard instead of "not really" isn't the same as not being confident. And that some commenters here are defending that a candidate that lacks the confidence to even apply for a job isn't worth their time considering.
• mikeash 10y ago
  Let me ask the opposite question: why does it bother you that they bring gender into it? As for why they do it, it's because women have historically been oppressed, and a lot of people now try to pretend like it's all over and done with when it clearly is not. Does it even matter why? They do. It's there. You can be thankful for what they're doing to draw attention to problems you face, or you can be upset that they haven't explicitly included you in the group they focus on. I don't see why you'd pick the latter.