Sadly it seems that the ICF didn't see the women's division as a way of affirming that women should participate and providing a more welcoming space to do so as the number of women would grow (and drift off into the open division as already happened with the top female players)
No, these big-brain chess boys really thought that it was a biological handicap they were running! So, given that maybe scrap the whole thing. Scrap the ICF. Throw the whole chess set out and start over.
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