Since it's singling out women, I'd have expected some kind of comparison to, say, men, but the article appears to discuss only women's exposition to general situations one might encounter as a bicycler.
While being threatened on your life or having to leave the road until a especially aggressive trafficant gets bored and leaves is very annoying and can leave you shaking, it's not actually rare for either gender to experience such situations (going by own experiences).
While I do imagine women suffer more abuse than men when biking, and while the article does not actually make any attempt to tell whether women experience more abuse on the roads than men, I'd say that the article definitely paints a need for better conditions for all bicyclers.
Sorry for the rant, I just dislike when someone singles out a demographic for cheap points, and then never follows up with relevant data.