> intuition ... was looked down on as feminine and unreliable

Hate to be that guy, but, citation?

This strikes me as the casual reframing through the eyes of an imagined arch-misogynist that has become so commonplace when reflecting on the past (which was a very different time than the present, but which enabled the present [despite the also-popular idea that we've come to our present place in spite of the past]).

Happy to be shown to be incorrect.