Oh, and admit it — you tend to see women from, say, New England as somewhat different critters yourself.
Please know I'm having fun with this conversation and not picking at all ;)
I married my dear hubby later in life. He moved from Maine to Texas in '91. We have a blended family but all were grown when we married. We both consider them all our children and they have had a blast getting to know one another. The grandkids don't acknowledge any "step" to us as grandparents or to the aunts, uncles and cousins. We've been blessed with NO tension or lack of love. But it's also fun to get together and gab about the differences. We have a daughter (native Texan) living in Alabama who chairs a board on continuing education, a daughter-in-law who manages nursing curriculum for a college in Maine, a daughter-in-law who is a branch manager for a bank in Maine, a daughter who home schools 4 children in Maine and the daughter in Texas who is an oil and gas land man.
So, I love your question. Yes, in our family we readily acknowledge they are different critters. All the gals are enormously successful. All have a minimum of 4 children and are awesome moms. (We now have 22 total grandkids, just added 1) But, in response to your point in the previous post about women executives having a different pressure in blue coastal areas, I immediately had to concede your point. The gals in Maine are a teensy bit more laid back like us Texans but the daughter-in-law at the bank has to make frequent meetings in Boston and occasionally NYC. I note that she stresses with confidence over appearance more, especially at the Boston/NYC meetings.
I will say the common thread between the ladies is their Christian faith. All evangelicals. After reconsidering our original discussion on how they'd react to a politician's nasty remarks about women, our bank manager is the one who would be most likely to express offense. I have to take the conversation away from President Trump tho because all are staunch supporters. Our bank manager loves the booming economy so she doesn't have a problem with him. We spent 2 weeks in Sept in Maine and I can't go 2 weeks or 2 days without talking politics so their views are known.
But, I agree, in some climates of professional women they may have more of a sub-group to take offense. But I think it may be more the feminist demographic.