This is not surprising when you look at how it reflects in the corporate workforce and office culture, what people percieve as educated manners and polish, and

This is not surprising when you look at how it reflects in the corporate workforce and office culture, what people percieve as educated manners and polish, and notably, who is absent from it. It's less a factor in entrepreneurial/startup environments, but the upper levels of institutions, you can certainly see the selection representation, even if it could be construed as sexist or homophobic for noticing. Entreprenuerial environments, as compared to regulated, institutional, government, NGO and arts, are still culturally different in their make up. The article tries to generalize some of LGBTQ peoples observed experiences, but I'd wonder if the key factor could be orientation to risk and how that gets rewarded. Education is a smart and very low risk strategy with reliably pretty-good rewards, and people who run institutions are rewarded more for avoiding risk than for taking it. What educated people dismiss as bro culture and have largely driven out of institutions is just unsupervised heterosexual masculinity, that is, without the burden of responsibility for others, accountability to taboos and public sphere narratives, or token positional authority. Participation or exclusion in that culture is not based on sexual orientation though even though I described it as heterosexual, it's an attitude and orientation to risk, conflict, identity, freedom, and even play. It's not like women and gay men somehow lack a banter and chirping gene, nobody would seriously believe that, so the absence of that risk orientation and gameness in offices is the effect of culture - which is an expression of the risk orientation of the people graduating universities. I'd propose the educational effect and any emergent expressions of institutional preference and makup of their cultures for women and gay men is not an intrinsic feature of gender/sex, but a bias in favour of their orientation to risk and conflict, and this is the effect of more complex individual strategies. The skillset for trading in perceptions and navigating dynamic alliances is very different from that of gauging risk and conseqeunces (often called black and white thinking, transactional, etc.), and I'd ask whether risk orientation probably provides more predictive insight than sexual orientation does in this article.