<i>it&#x27;s coming from a lifetime of not having her experiences taken seriously and situations like this backfiring.</i><p>Or, because corporate culture almost everywhere can be summed up with the phrase &quot;don&#x27;t rock the boat&quot;, gender notwithstanding.<p>There&#x27;s no need to prejudge every woman as a victim - certainly one you know nothing about other than a one paragraph story on HN.<p>This is what&#x27;s called benevolent sexism.