Someone asked about my residency experience. Anesthesiology. Only a very few women in various surgery specialties back then. One obnoxious (I remember an encounter with her), the other two I can recall (not counting OB-GYN, btw) were nicer personalities. Residency was the forefront of changes. Private practice OTOH was back in the dark ages in the surgical world. Now there are more women surgeons where I was- wish I could have continued working to be with them. Enjoyed most of the subspecialty women surgeons.
Like the engineers tales school versus the workplace can be vastly different. The few women are likely to end up in different places so classmates disperse. The workplace includes not just recent grads but can have decades older men who make life difficult without thinking. Long after I retired- changes and politics but stayed for H’s practice, long story- I went to the funeral home visitation for an old but nice surgeon. A male OB-GYN told me it was nice that I had retired to be home with my child… Arggh! Both I and a woman friend who was his partner never did like him, his wife was nice, however. I held my tongue out of respect for the deceased. But- didn’t he realize women were just as passionate about their fields as men??? Etc.