Is it that easy for women?

I was talking to my male friend other day about how us graduates are having a hard time getting good offers and how hard it’s gonna be to grow in tech field

All of sudden, this guy says “ tum kisi senior manager ko date karo ya bas flirt karo then your job is done” . He proceeds to say how lucky women are and how it’s easy for them. He told me to basically take ADVANTAGE of being a WOMAN.

I got offended like this friend is my classmate from school and he knows I am a straight ”A+”student. He discredited the fact I got an offer because I am “FEMALE “. I tried arguing w him and he started explaining how he didn’t get a good offer because his competitor was a pretty girl.

This isn’t the first time I am hearing this, one of my friend from BITS advised me to cold mail HRs on LinkedIn and try to flirt if they’re male to get a job saying it’s so easy for me???

Is it our fault for being girls? Isn’t patriarchy to be blamed for all this “diversity hiring”? why do some men think this way? Most of these guys are engineers.