Women have been in leadership roles since forever... and, at the same time, they've generally not been the dominant gender in regard to the matters of the day since forever, and that's okay:
"If your story does hit the newspapers, on the other hand, you’ll have to adjust to a different kind of outrage: Your scrupulous research will be repurposed into some bad headline (“GRAVITY DISPROVEN”) designed to yank eyeballs, extract clicks, and generally trample over your precious academic principles."
https://newrepublic.com/article/152887/whats-controversial-medieval-nuns-teeth?fbclid=IwAR0yvdflIsX5x5PayofQqpEHyMW8FkFOvjqetmrESZDrg0dDvqc4NR1lyzY.