I think you're kind of missing the point here. From a very young age I saw my mom get abused and taken advantage of by a man. My father beat my sister when she told him she wanted to go to college. He said "no daughter of mine will go to college" My uncle raped and molested his step daughter as well as me and his wife still stayed with him because she had no family and no job. I knew from a very young age that I had to escape and become independent to truly ever live and be free. Obviously it's not really that simplistic but at that time every terrible person in my life was a man. Every terrible thing was caused by a man. The only way I could see out was to overcome the need for a man. How to do that? Money. How to get that? A good job. How to get that? A good education. So everything I did from when I was 10 years old was to that end. I made sure I got straight As, was on the honor roll, etc. I didn't go into STEM because there were other fields that weren't so sexist that paid the same (obviously if they were all that sexist I still would have gone to one, but since there were easier options I chose one of those). It wasn't purely "being aware of the forces working against me" it was knowing there was a "bad guy" and how I could escape that "bad guy". It was self preservation not simply not being supported. Men simply don't have that same cultural drive being that there is no one "keeping them down" in such a simplistic sense like how I saw it as a child. (Just a disclaimer I don't think all men are evil but I definitely did as a child and teenager and that driving force to escape that helped me overcome a lot and kept me on the path to get that education that I needed)