In reply to Peter Shaw.

What about women? What about little girls and little boys who are told that they can and cannot do or be who they want to be due to social coding and lack of representation across every industry. What about the 'best people for the job' not even being able to get into the room due to their gender, race or sexuality?

Don't worry about WordPress. WordPress is being maintained by excellent developers. One important inclusionary gesture to have one update lead by a team of women will not be the downfall of WordPress. WordPress will be absolutely fine. This is a much more important issue than who is assigned to manage an update.