father vs foundress

father and foundress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
father	Yes	No	Yes	No
foundress	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, foundress is a hyponym of father; that is, foundress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than father:

Other hyponyms of father include cofounder, coloniser, colonizer.

father (noun)	foundress (noun)
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)	a woman founder
the founder of a family
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
a person who founds or establishes some institution
the head of an organized crime family

father (verb)	foundress (verb)
make (offspring) by reproduction