Peter there is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning.

The release team has never been made up of the 50 best and brightest in the entire world. The job doesn’t require that, few jobs do. You’re making an argument that you need the 50 best people in the world to do a job, when in fact thousands are qualified to do exceptionally well.

However, historically, out of those thousands of qualified folks certain groups are under represented because of systemic discrimination. So in spite of wanting to participate, and being over qualified to participate, those folks aren’t able to do so.

Organizing an this all woman release team is a great reminder that there are thousands of qualified people out there and a well qualified release team can be put together from just one of the many under represented groups with a little bit of effort to over come those barriers.