Hang on, is it actually called the "Women of Distinction" award? The article body calls it the “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award”, which doesn't sound gender-specific. If there's nothing about the award that requires it specifically to be given to women, other than just being named after a woman and being given to one the first few times, what's the problem?
The article is laden with snarky comments and obviously biased opinions, and the article it links to as its source is paywalled, so it's not really clear what's going on here.