Since forever, America has been a "man's world" business-wise. Men networked with their college chums, and that of their fathers. This divided the business world into power blocks, big and small. These power blocks competed with each other. Men are also able to work hand in hand with someone that they may personally despise. Men easily "use" each other to attain their business goals.
Education is good, but not good enough. I believe that women are failing to network, to form power blocks, of the same order as men do. They're trying to fit into this man's world, when they should be disrupting it instead.
And women need to learn how to take calculated risks, which runs counter to their "nest-building" instinct. Yes, there is a fundamental difference, mentally and emotionally, between the sexes, which women need to compensate for, if they're to be competitive against men.
Women make great warriors, just as long as they are trying to kill the enemy, and aren't concerned with staying alive.