I can't remember where I heard recently - probably the BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme - someone saying that male hierarchies have had no experience of educated women, and simply have no understanding of how to deal with them*. I think it was in discussion of this very issue. (Ever since they shifted the programme from 8:10 to 7:10 on sunday morning I have often missed details through dropping back into sleep.)

In the Middle Ages, they dealt with the problem of the highly educated nuns such as Hild and Hildegard by inhibiting the availability of education to the religious communities. I somehow suspect this will not be an option this time.

*Surely exactly the same way as dealing with educated male human beings.

Penny