Re career females - the reality is that men dominate all the careers and fields they find valuable, and relegate women to doing the low status work. The instant men deem a career to be worthy and high status, women are pushed out, and when women move into a field men immediately consider it of lesser value (in Russia, for example, most doctors are female and medicine is a poorly paid low status job. The men didn’t want it, so downgraded the career’s value)
The intake in the UK to law, medicine and accountancy is pretty much equal- and has been for some time. And all over the UK parents of sons are saying "I'm so disappointed in him- he's a doctor/ solicitor/ barrister/ accountant" Except of course they aren't.
Are you seriously suggesting that the status of these professions is diminished because half of them are women? Or is this actually another example of exaggerated whingeing and in fact talking women down?
I don't know if this fact about Russia is true; if it is I would say it is more to do with the basket case Russian society has become since the fall of Communism than anything which can be usefully extrapolated.