[peteretep]

    > Every female would have had to get over the constant
    > systematic assumption that they didnt belong in this field,
    > from the culture being the only girl in the room / on the
    > team / to the constant assumptions that they are in
    > marketing at meetups and generally just reminded at ever
    > step that they 'dont belong'

Which they have in many more prestigious and traditionally more masculine fields, with medicine being the prime example.