My thought, first on reading only your email and confirmed by reading the talk page, would be that your edit probably brought the other editor's attention to something he thought was undue/poorly sourced/whatever, and that he removed it because he noticed it then, not because you'd touched it before that. Maybe the other editor was right, maybe they were wrong, but I'm going to have to agree with the other commenters so far that your emails aren't really making clear how this has anything to do with either Clinton being male or you being female.
Absent any apparent evidence that it has to do with those things, I think you're taking rather a leap of bad-faith logic to ascribe this to sexism or patriarchy, rather than to a run-of-the-mill content/BLP dispute just like any other.