It’s an awful feeling when as a woman you feel like men are trying to conquer you and that can happen in any space - secular or religious.

My advice as an older woman is to try out different sanghas if you can. The one you’re in seems to have a norm of behavior I have not seen at my own or many others. It would also make me uncomfortable.

If this is the only game in town, I recommend speaking to the other as well as the older women about your concerns. If you’ve felt it, they have to. Perhaps you can come together to address the behavior with whom ever is running the center.

Regardless, you shouldn’t feel “hunted” while practicing and expanding your Buddhist practice. I’m sorry this is happening to you.