You can generalize this in any way. Height: Hey, all the conference speakers are really tall, there's no way I a 5'4" male be a conference speaker. College: N

You can generalize this in any way. Height: Hey, all the conference speakers are really tall, there's no way I a 5'4" male be a conference speaker. College: None of the conference speakers are from my university hence there's no way I from an unknown university can make it in the industry. There are already a ton of female only events including conferences happening in the tech industry and if most cutting-edge stuff in a narrow field/tech (electron) is being done by male counterparts (or they are more interested in speaking about it) that shouldn't be a bad thing.