I often got looked down upon because I'm a woman. I remember how one of my colleagues said “by this time you’ve already had a brilliant career if you were a man, if our director didn’t treat women as second-class and promote men just because they’re men”. And that was true, I had to present a project and had a man beside me even if he technically had a lower position than I just because apparently I can not be trusted with the technical aspects.
That man was a designer btw not a software developer and his only advantage was being a man. Somehow I made myself trustworthy in the eyes of higher management and didn’t require a man beside me at the meetings afterwards, but did I get a raise? No.
“Women have men who earn money, they don’t need it”. I don’t have anyone but myself to cover my expenses so eventually I just quit.