She defied orders because she knew she could get away with it.
That’s right; she’ll get a free pass with the gender card.
Watched a show on the crash of flight 1493 at LAX back in 1991, and it was completely the fault of a female air traffic controller. The program did mention that it was her error, but then piled on a bunch of other excuses - she got away with killing 35 people (no charges).