My personal theory is that they can’t have one person go on back-to-back missions for various reasons, so they are saving the women in hopes that the Artemis program stays on schedule and that at least half of the astronauts on Artemis IV (to land on the moon) will be women
you cannot convince me that out of all the women astronauts in nasa, esa and csa they couldn’t find at least one who is qualified for this mission