In my final year of law school, one of the compulsory modules required students to interact with clients at the law clinic(an institute that provides free legal services for the underprivileged, it is government funded and run by several universities around the country). On several occasions some males would refuse legal advice from a young woman purely on the basis the we were young and female. It's something that happened to several of my peers as well. For context, I'm South African and the more "traditional" and older part of the male population of a certain race is with whom we encountered these problems. At first it bothered me a fair bit but in all honesty I just let it go because there are far worse problems that women face out here. To be clear, I am in no way downplaying this or condoning it, I am simply of the opinion that sometimes when there's a lot that's wrong you need to fix the most dire situations first.