I'm currently a PhD student in a Statistics/Biostatistics department, and am expecting to graduate this summer. I've loved the graduate student experience and would highly encourage any woman to go to graduate school and pursue as high of a degree as they can-- whether that's a Masters or PhD. Here are the ways that pursuing my advanced degree makes me feel empowered and proud, in the context of FDS:

• It's something for myself that I'm earning and achieving that no man can take away from me
• It's a solid way of achieving financial independence: I've been financial independent since I was 21 and entered this PhD program-- I have a teaching assistantship, which means that I teach undergraduates and in return get a tuition waiver and a living stipend (which although modest, is enough to support me and my pup, and save some afterwards). In the US, I haven't heard of any STEM PhD program that isn't funded either through a teaching assistantship or a research assistantship. I've been interviewing for jobs (this field doesn't seem to have been affected by the pandemic), and because of the advanced degree and the field it's in, I can ask for a 100k starting salary and have employers think that's completely reasonable.
• Once I achieve my PhD, it'll be an essential part of me that I will have regardless of my relationship status-- whether I find a HVM and start a family, or whether I decide to have kids by myself via a sperm bank or something (I know I do want kids).
• Men who don't have PhDs (whom I've worked with/for) seem to find it intimidating, which I find endlessly hilarious and it's great amusement
• For the past two semesters, my grader (whose job is to grade my students' assessments/homeworks for me, so I can focus on teaching; I have one grader per semester) has been guys in the same program and same year as me-- they are so respectful (not that they were rude before or anything) because they work for me and I love telling them what to do hahaha

So yeah, I find that the pursuit of an advanced degree is incredibly empowering (and also fun), and would highly recommend it.

(P.S. Please consider doing a math major in undergrad-- you don't have to be good at it (it was a definitely a struggle for me), but once you do it, you'll have a wide variety of options for graduate studies/a career because math forms the foundation of so many fields.)