"Town square debates", which anything like this is, tend to be driven by emotions and instincts. Those men may be better to their friends and acquaintances. Those women may too be parroting it simply because that position signals their belonging to some group.

My point is that being well-educated is less important here than it would seem, because it's not about being correct.

In my experience the technology related fields are greater perpetrators than the base sciences. Though there is still an image problem for things like math (the not tech, engingeering or finance version) and a problem with people outside the field having sxcist expectations about those in it, I genuinely think the environment itself to be very inclusive.

I don't know why any women sticks it out in that segment. The crap they deal with. No amount of money could make it worth it. The shitheads won.