Female physicists, engineers, nerds, etc, tend to be bald, fat or have a disastrous appearance that they're not even aware of.
It's not perception, it's just reality.
A female brain that works all the time like a male brain adapts to producing more testosterone. Testosterone has physiological effects on the entire body.
Once a female engineer wanted to cheat her husband with me.
I wanted so hard to yell at her face "you're becoming bald and your acne disgusts me", but I couldn't.
Otherwise she was fine, but the engineer life was turning her into a man.