The problem with the "sexism is blocking" model is that it can't explain why this would continue to be a problem for chess today, when women have made so many i

The problem with the "sexism is blocking" model is that it can't explain why this would continue to be a problem for chess today, when women have made so many inroads in other areas. Sure, there's sexism in chess now, but does anyone seriously think 2020's chess players are more sexist than, say, lawyers and law teachers in the 60's and 70's? And yet women were able to steadily break through in law, and medicine, and so many other areas.