Women act as if they think that men are the standard for what it means to be a genuine, grown-up human being. Women tend to focus a good deal of attention on male people. Women give up a date they had with a woman friend at the chance to go out with a man. Women feel guilty leaving the family on the weekend, or they save prime time for men and fit each other into the leftover time slots. Women seem to have difficulty rejoicing in one another's successes and achievements.
Women deny that sexism is real.
Women seldom feel as though they are female enough or that they are adequate enough. Women tend to feel that they don't have much to say. If a man is speaking or an articulate woman is speaking, women will tend to withdraw their thoughts and become quiet. Women give up. Women sometimes act afraid of physical and emotional closeness with other women.