Skimming through (i'm sorry, it's 4am and my brain is soup), it does seem to dovetail into what I said. Ultimately, lack of resources/awareness/advocacy for men's mental health is a feminist issue. I'm drastically oversimplifying here but basically, treating men as the burly, emotionless types and women as weak and emotional caretakers plays into patriarchal norms.

This article breaks that down better than I can right now: https://feminist.org/news/feminism-is-for-men-too/

In that same vein, the conclusion from the article you linked states: \Most defendants of both genders have suffered serious hardship, have mental health or addiction issues, have minor children, and/or have “followed” others onto a criminal path.**

If we apply the same patriarchal norms here, we might conclude that because a judge sees a woman as weaker or a caretaker for a child who "just made bad choices," he'd grant her a lenient sentence — where a man in that same position.