Sexism and institutionalized sexism obviously exist. However, it's not very clear from the article whether the alleged discrimination was due to sexism or just

Sexism and institutionalized sexism obviously exist. However, it's not very clear from the article whether the alleged discrimination was due to sexism or just experience-ism. If the BDFL of a project is replaced by a newer leader, people would obviously still trust the previous leader more, irrespective of the gender. I can easily see this story happening but with the genders reversed. From their homepages: Karen M. Sandler is the executive director of Conservancy. Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org.