I sympathise with that position but the issue here is that the woman was 1. If there were two women and the same happened with both we could be much confident w

I sympathise with that position but the issue here is that the woman was 1. If there were two women and the same happened with both we could be much confident with our assertions as we'd effectively have a "control" woman but with just one its hard to make social assertions as to whether it was sexist or there were other factors that led to the outcome.