Women's behavior... one opinion
You should get yourself briefed on just how wacky and silly-bureaucratic this organization is. It's not at all as it's publicly portrayed. That having been said....
My observations are from the late 60's thru early 80's -- unlike what someone else observed, I saw women and men in 'worker' and 'management' positions equally, and the counsellors were sometimes more women than men. I was frankly impressed, because it wasn't something you saw in the real world at that time -- it was talked about in radical feminist forums, but had not really been implemented in any sort of meaningful way.
This was not a result of affirmative action or plan -- the organization is mind-numbingly and needlessly complex, complete with a NASA-like organizational chart that is mandated to be filled from the top down. Because the pay is miserable, either true believers or true-true believer-billion-year (not a typo) 'Sea Organization' members filled the slots. Filling was done based on need and training, often boiling down to 'can this person fog a mirror?', but blind to any modern-day real world age/sex/etc. criteria. It was not done based necessarily on the desires of the employee, but on the hole that needed filling. Because of that, "hilarity often ensued." Think Keystone Cops.
My first organization had a woman running it, all my personal counsellors were women, and ... well, lotsa babes for a young man to enjoy the company of! Other organizations had women in very high positions as well as the lowly ones. Hubbard's wife ran the infamous Guardian Office that in 1977 attracted so much FBI attention. Her skills and that of her organization rivaled anything John LeCarre could conjure, and she had many women in the intelligence network helping, among other things, to spy on the IRS and FDA.
When your boss tells you to do something in the organization, you do it pronto unless you can find a policy that says otherwise. The equality meant you could hear women managers uttering colorful profanity and often becoming as aggressive and violent with employees as their XY counterparts. In those days it was a shock to new employees, quickly overcome due to the frequency of occurrence, especially if directed at you!
At the DC church, one thing that I feel helped the organization in spite of itself was that couples stopped their furtive copulations, got married, and had kids. People got part-time jobs. Other things started to matter. A kinder, gentler place ensued. It may sound "so what" to you, but it was revolutionary to that time and place. You'll have to ask some of the people from the 90's if child-bearing has been "discouraged" (think China), as is rumored -- I have no direct knowledge, but if this is the case, it may be the reason for the discouragement.
God, I hope you're not an OSA agent.