Updated language aside, it is still harder for ladies to bike commute. In a business office, even a business-casual they have an unwritten expectation to have hair and makeup done, and fashion that doesn't lend itself to riding bikes. A guy can often get away with wearing his work clothes and merely untucking his pants from his sock on arrival, unless he's riding far or in the weather. There's a narrative that bikes were liberating for women in the 1890s bike boom, maybe so, but in the next decades cars sold like hotcakes, at least in part because they could do all this at home and arrive fresh