Should Dev Bootcamp scholarships help classes besides race and gender identity?

Dev Bootcamp is offering $425k in scholarship money (in ~$12k chunks) to these classes:

- Veterans - Anyone who identifies as female or non-male - Anyone who identified as an ethnic minority group underrepresented in tech (African American, Chicano/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander)

See http://devbootcamp.com/tuition/

This is a really cool initiative, but it feels weird to me that a bunch of protected classes are left out: religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, etc.

For example, "median earnings for people with no disability were over $28,000 compared to the $17,000 median income reported for individuals with a disability" [1] according to the 2006 census. And gay men earn 10% to 32% less [2] than heterosexual men.

Should Dev Bootcamp's new scholarships include other classes? Or is it better to just focus on race and gender identity as a "first step"? Why?

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sources:

[1]: http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/factsheet-disability.aspx [2]: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Badgett-Sears-Lau-Ho-Bias-in-the-Workplace-Jun-2007.pdf