What a PR stunt. I hope it doesn’t go wrong for them. I assume it flies on autopilot, does a do-nothing exercise, and returns home without issue.
Reckless imo.
And no, it’s not an insult to women. What is insulting is to believe DEI has no place in this and that they’re all ‘the most qualified’, where no men were discriminated against. The statistics being that this is NOT the most qualified crew and RISK is being allowed into the calculus.
They are not “crew” in the classic sense; they had the privilege to be passengers/cargo for this flight.
There is nothing that they could do during the flight except unbuckle themselves during zero g and then buckle themselves back in for the return to earth.