As someone who has recently graduated, was working at a tech/ finance company and whose friends newly graduated are working in the traditionally male dominated industries of tech/ finance, women are getting the benefit of the doubt and being selected over better qualified men to keep up "workplace balance"and making the ratio over 50/50. They are getting advantages although often being less qualified.
These women who have an easier time 'getting in' are less likely to become CFO's and CEO's because many haven't put in the work to develop expertise or they don't have the same levels of ambition. I believe this is due to general inherent disproportional differences between the sexes.
For every female that wants to be a Hillary Clinton a Meg Whitman there are 10 men trying to be an Elon Musk or an Obama. It isn't just 'society' influencing them, but differences between men and women.
In the middle-upper classes in the U.S. women have equal if not more opportunities than men.