I’m a paramedic and when the family comes to meet the ambulance they tend to go to the driver(male) and tell him what’s going on even though I am also there getting out of the passenger side. He would say he is not the person who needs to know and would direct them to me(female). This sometimes is a shock to people that a woman would know more than their male partner.
I was working at a student internship shift. The guys I was working with started talking about a girl that qualified the previous year and the only thing they could say about her was the “nice ass” that she had in the most vulgar language. This woman happens to be one of the best paramedics I have worked with, but that one encounter made it clear that as females our abilities are secondary to us being a sex object in this field.