Women dominating a man's world

It's a truism that this is a man's world. But who cares? At least in many cases, the characteristics about it that make it "male" don't necessarily make it much easier for men to dominate. For example, I recently realized that women seem far more concerned about "tone" than are men. They tend to contemplate layers of meaning and intention behind a statement when there may not be any. Yet it is relatively simple for women to stop caring so much about tone. Just don't take it to heart that a tone sounds degrading, so long as it isn't actually. The mere fact that the baseline is male doesn't have to be offensive.

There are two exceptions. The first is when the male-biased baseline actually makes it easier for them to function and succeed in a culture. For example, when the baseline for effective communication is volume, the louder voices of men makes them succeed more easily in communicating. This becomes an issue of fairness when the advantage is not natural (we actually hear better when we have higher volume) but was historically established by men in dominant positions by influencing our values. For example, the (rough) tendency of American culture to value masculine strength and sports over music and art might be thought problematic for women, who cannot compete physically.

The second exception is when there is active bias against women wholesale, not about any particular quality of them. This is obviously not something women can escape easily. This is, for example, the trouble Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced in law school when her ideas would be ignored but then congratulated in the mouth of a male.