Another Angry WomanCurious as to what the justification is for having gendered chess categories in the first place, because literally the only thing I can think of ultimately amounts to they believe women are innately stupid.
parenthetical@stavvers one rationale is that, since women are so underrepresented among people who compete in chess, the weight of numbers means that that the top players of open events will likely still be overwhelmingly men. womens events and titles are reserved so that they don't have that effect.