The fact that your partner does not report having that experience does not literally mean that she has not had that experience. There are several possible reasons for this, and I do not want you to think I am passing judgement, but your statement is not convincing on its own.
I have watched this happen to women who were oblivious - who behave as though men stealing women's ideas is the proper way of reality, and yet they will loudly voice an objection when a woman does the same.
I work in a lab that directly competes with Barabási.
Barabási is seen as a mortal enemy and we try to discredit his work as often as possible, just as this article does.
But the truth is, the whole field is pretty much nonsense.
We try to apply network theory in a way which doesn't really apply. We make assumptions about biology that are trivially false. Any statistical results that reach significance fail to be significant on retesting. Any results which continue to be significant do not match the experimental data.
This field has not yet proven anything of true biological value.
I have watched this happen to women who were oblivious - who behave as though men stealing women's ideas is the proper way of reality, and yet they will loudly voice an objection when a woman does the same.