I have read somewhere else the women in charge that night were not on speaking terms over some issue that upsets women. People died for that and many other reasons.
More likely than with men I think.
Coppock wasn’t communicating with her CO or his XO but she also wasn’t talking to the ship’s electronic nerve center — the Combat Information Center, or CIC. Bridge and CIC teams are supposed to constantly share information on what they’re seeing and their sensors detecting, working together to navigate a ship safety through the night. But Coppock wouldn’t talk with the CIC because her counterparts there “had given her bad information in the past,” according to the report. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/a-warship-doomed-by-confusion-indecision-and-ultimately-panic-on-the-bridge/