It might seem like a minor point, but it's common to high control groups to try to emphasize that the members are "sheep" even to the point of "sheepishness" when it comes to speaking out against wrong or bad decisions.
I think it's ridiculous and also scary that people with knowledge, men or women, are expected to keep quiet. I'm a nurse, and I'm expected to speak up if I know something is wrong, even if my superior happens to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Also, if we are in the middle of performing CPR, everyone works as a team, regardless of what letters we have after our names. I feel like the hierarchy is so much more of a "thing" in the Borg than in the real world where we actually accomplish real things!