Why limit yourself to gender? Why not white vs other skin color? Why not the US vs another country? Why not democrat vs republicans? Why not western culture vs whatever other culture? Seriously, this kind of categorization is just ridiculous, especially when you speculate instead of showing evidence.

No, I won't be surprised if a STEM professor is reading topology. I will be surprised if a gender-study professor is reading topology. I will be also surprised if some stranger (i.e. I don't know the background of this person) who could only do pre-algebra in high school says Topology without Tears is the first book on Topology that they read and they immediately fall in love with topology. Possible, for sure. Surprising, of course. It's just a matter of probability.