Is there really a "world of men"?

Reading a blog post from Susan Mernit, "Women and Tech: Earn vs. Have" where she comments over another post from Shana Albert entitled Social Media and Gender issues come back to haunt me in which this last one says "The issue is my past insecurities of being a young female professional in a man’s world. I earned my spot then and I will keep trying to earn my spot in the Social Media world now as well".v To which And Mernit replies in disappointment: "While I respect her point of view, the big bing that went off was this: Why do women continually feel they have to earn a place in the world? Why don't more women recognize that they have a place, and the challenge is just to keep it, or to expand what you have?". I can't avoid wondering how "a world of men" might feel like... I never felt I lived in a world of men, and definitely never felt that I had to "earn a place" in between a space "ruled ?!?" by men.

In any case, when I think about my working experience and life in general, trying to recall the problems that I have had when working on projects, at school and generally at work, those have mostly involved women. Women who (as I perceived it) have fallen in a strange trap in which they think they need to prove they have got the ruling scepter and need to bang it against the floor for others to acknowledge they have got "power", and then (maybe unconsciously) became some sort of powerful witches who travel around surveillant, in their power brooms. Women who think they live in a men's world, definitely do... they create it themselves and suffer from it, fighting until exhaustion against their own monster, and dragging other women to it, along the way.

I can only think that as women feed machismo, inculcating it themselves in their own male children, they also feed "the men's world" by (instead of living in a men & women's world) trying to fit into their perception of a world which is men's.