"Funk was one of 13 female aviators... who, in 1961, passed all the exams necessary for admission to NASA's astronaut corps..."
Congratulations to Wally on her upcoming flight, but let's not go overboard exaggerating the qualifications she and the other women had, in some pinheaded "woke" attempt at displaying what a den of misogynistic Neanderthals NASA was in 1961.
Yes, these women passed some of the same medical tests that the Mercury candidates underwent (though only one, Jerrie Cobb, passed all three phases of the medical tests) but there was a lot more to the qualifications for the early astronauts than being able to physically survive the expected rigors of space flight. One key qualification that NONE of them had was experience as a test pilot in high performance jet aircraft. (Cobb, arguably the most experienced aviator among the 13, had never even flown a jet.)
Experience handling a novel craft in unexpected circumstances was a legitimate qualification for sending pilots into the unfamiliar environment of space. It was not a matter of sexual discrimination on the part of NASA that there was no way for a woman to BE qualified. Maybe the U.S. military should have allowed women to fly in combat and work as military test pilots in the late '40s and early '50s, so that by 1959 when NASA started assembling its pool of astronaut candidates there might have been some women who were qualified. But to imply that the so-called "Mercury 13" were as qualified as the Mercury astronauts is laughably revisionist history.