Yes. Sadly almost all the people who have put me down over the years have been women. My mother, who said I was too uncoordinated to go to ballet classes, and later that I should concentrate on getting married and having children. My teachers (all women), who said I was stupid, and would be lucky to get five O levels (I got 8 of the 9 I sat). The woman who read my horoscope when I was about 15 and told me I would never be a published author ... and much more recently, the woman who - who had been perfectly friendly when I was the expert to be consulted when she was stuck - on being made my boss, immediately took to gaslighting me. Every meeting, she would tell me "but did you see their faces when you said xxxx? You really shouldn't have said that." She was pretty and fragile and cried when I talked back to her. I may never recover from that last one. And no, I don't expect I will ever get a book published (the PhD thesis doesn't count, that's a self-publish).