LFCS: The Outreach Program for Women

LFCS: The Outreach Program for Women

and also what if any conclusions had been drawn about why women are under-represented to begin with

According to the article, they deliberately avoided doing that, and that distinguished their effort from typical efforts in this area.

IIUC, they imagined a bunch of potential barriers to women and tried to remove each without assuming that it was the actual reason for underrepresentation. It seems like a suboptimal use of limited resources to me, but at least it probably avoided a lot of arguing.