[DoreenMichele]

FWIW, it's possible she intentionally positioned herself that way to some degree.

Women tend to have a lot of their ideas stolen anyway. Being "invisible" and unattractive at least cuts back on the sexual harassment.

Being a female engineer means she probably was making a lot more money than most women will ever make. She may have mostly made her peace with the fact that it sucks that if she were a man, she probably would have gotten more credit and so forth, but for a woman, she had a fairly good life.

There are women making good money who are just mad as hell at the injustices in their lives, but some women are more pragmatic than that. Many of them will not admit that publicly because they don't want the assholes of the world to infer that it's perfectly fine to crap all over women. After all, this woman is "happy" with it!

But their internal metric can be along the lines of "I live in a first world country. In the grand scheme of things, I overall have it pretty good. There are literally billions of people worse off than me. I am just not going to waste my time pointlessly on bellyaching over this."

[valtism]

You are assuming a lot about this woman who you have entirely no information about.

[DoreenMichele]

No, I'm not. I'm positing a possible alternate explanation, something other than "straight up victim," for a woman who reportedly was extremely competent, with a high IQ, a successful career and so forth.

I am doing so based on what I have known about the life and attitudes of a serious career woman I was quite close to and based on my own first-hand experience as a 55 year old woman who was one of the top students in my graduating class, had a corporate job for a time and other life experience.