This story will likely bring on a smile, as it highlights the incompetence of the space industry. However, a more serious if perhaps less obvious explanation underpins this fiasco; women often aren't considered when designs are made for 'people'.
As the article below explains, this can have serious consequences; in one example, the lack of properly fitting personal protective equipment (PPE) led to the fatal stabbing of a female police officer, after which 700 complaints surfaced about the equipment, which was designed only for men.
The range of impacts this kind of after-thinking of the technical man's world has is surprising. 'Equitable' toilet provision leads to longer queues. Crash test dummies model women poorly; etc etc.