That is their primary 'mission', as it were, but they have also become islands of wokeness driven by the products of liberal arts education departments.
Back during the hubub during Clarence Thomas' hearings, a lady who worked in our department who thought the entire mess was bullshit told us we had explicit permission to sexually harass her. She was a but older than I, but still looked good. We had a great team in the department, and she was good tech. It was good to know that the lunacy wasn't going to affect us for a while. We just said 'Yes Ma'am, and continued with our work.
I’ve seen some co-workers joke about things where others say they aren’t offended/think it’s funny, but whenever a company lets one of those people go then suddenly years of off-color jokes are brought up in a lawsuit. In the situation you describe, anyone who took up the older female worker is a fool - she’s OK with it until she’s not OK with it (usually after termination).