Both Pride and UFC are MMA promotions that organize events where fighters fight one another in MMA bouts. UFC is a much larger promotion in terms of size, value ($$) and number of fighters. Pride is much smaller and is usually the promotion where talented fighters start their careers. As they win matches and build reputation, they move over to larger organizations like UFC.
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MMA is mixed martial arts and is a sport. UFC is a organization for the sport. It is not the only one. Think football = mma, NFL = UFC.
Since in the UFC, Forrest Griffin took his light heavy weight title at UFC 86 July 5 2008. previous loss to Wanderli Silva twice in PRIDE which he avenged Dec 27 2008
Maybe because it was thought that UFC was dangerous for women. But, this isn't true. Recently women have started to fight in the UFC. In fact one of the recent UFC events - UFC 157 was headlined by the fight between Ronda Rousey Vs. Liz Carmouche for the UFC Womens Bantamweight championship which Rousey won in the first round by submission (arm-bar)
UFC has always been UFC