It is an unfortunate truth that even in this day and age, there can be specific difficulties with being a woman in the workplace. While the ideologically brainwashed tradwives of the world may be wrong in their belief that a woman’s only place is the home, the observation that an office can be an uncomfortable place to be female is not inaccurate. Not to get too Sheryl Sandberg, but adapting to this is sometimes a struggle.
For a woman who feels like she is being discriminated against in the workplace because of her gender, it can sometimes feel difficult to address it. On the one hand, it can prohibit somebody from doing their job properly, but on the other, some work environments will punish speaking up. It can make a situation that is already annoying turn into a real dilemma. It is not something that anybody wants to deal with, if they can help it.