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I think details matter here. What you've described is a little too general to know what's really going on. For example, when you say "everyone bashed her", what would we read in the transcript? How many is "everyone"? How was she bashed?

I agree that it might be sexism...and it might not. I'd have to know more. I know a talented scientist woman who, at least in one point in her career, put across a very "flaky" image to other scientists, and one of them told her so. She felt hurt about it, but it was true. I think since then she has tuned up her presentation style and probably doesn't get this concern now. But in our context, it surely wasn't because she was a woman, because there were at least 10 other women in her position that were not getting that sort of feedback whatsoever; on the contrary, they were held in high regard generally.

If it is sexism (or at least that's a component of it), what a shame.