I was assuming that the "fair" part was about the gender of people because that seems to be what most of the article is about. The rest of the reasons for doing

I was assuming that the "fair" part was about the gender of people because that seems to be what most of the article is about. The rest of the reasons for doing this make sense so my question was mostly, what does this have to do with people's gender? It seems like they imply that this is a bigger problem because of the distribution of people's gender, than it would have been with another distribution.