I am a little younger than the guys in this part of the forum, but I have a story of one of my (women) university professors that I feel can relate to the topic.
My professor was a woman teaching my engineering ethics class. One of the last few classes, she was talking about women's lack of rights in the workplace and gave examples of her past jobs (a glass ceiling, and all that blah blah blah). One example was about a co-worker of hers that just had a baby. After having her baby and pregnancy leave, she started working again like normal; except she wanted to spend more time with the baby, at home. My professor made it seem how "unjust" it was when this coworker's boss (a man) denied her the ability to work from home, and only go to work once or twice a week. Ironically she blamed it on the fact that she was a woman who was good at what she did and that the boss was intimidated by her work (what boss in his right mind would send one of his best workers away? He had honored her right to pregnancy-leave).
Another example she gave was her first job straight out of Graduate school at Stanford, where she had received her Masters. I don't know the specifics of the job, but it had something to do with each employee having a few companies out in the IT sector to represent. When she was first hired, so was this other guy (let's call him Joe). According to her, he was a tall, good-looking guy, that had a *deep* voice (she kept emphasizing his deep voice and other physical traits). When the management handed them the companies they were going to represent, my professor was handed the top companies (Hewlett-Packard, IBM, etc) while Joe was handed slightly less-tier companies. Here is where the story gets interesting. Apparently Joe had done very well with his companies, earning a lot of money for the company, while my professor hadn't done as well. They sat her down at the end of the year and asked her, "What's wrong? We had a lot higher hopes for you and your earnings." She complained to the class that she had been discriminated for being a women because the company had handed her "all the hard, almost impossible to get" companies while easy-going, everyone's friend, Joe had received the "easier ones." This was her example of how a women could be discriminated against by a (again emphasizing physical traits) good-looking, deep-voiced man.
I proceeded to ask her in front of the class, "I don't mean this in any negative way, but it only seems logical to me that a recently graduated student from Stanford, one of the most prestigious schools in the world, would get the harder to obtain companies and contracts, not because of being discriminated against by men." She proceeded to give me an earful basically not agreeing with me, and I didn't press the issue because she was the one grading my papers.