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What does being in support of gender equality have to do with your test results?
We'd expect you to have such associations, because those things are statistically linked in our society, regardless of any other factors.
You might as well be shocked that you associated New York City with skyscrapers despite being an advocate of sustainable construction practices.
But building skyscrapers (and high-density cities more generally) is the most environmentally sustainable thing we can do. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/the-lorax-was-wrong-skyscrapers-are-green/
Your main point, however, is right on.
Associating skyscrapers with New York doesn't constitute approval for either.
You might truly abhor racial prejudice and still recognize that black people are usually portrayed in a negative light, and thus "blackness" and "bad" are associated in your mind. That's not being prejudiced as such.
Yeah, I agree with Annoyance. Don't worry about it. It's like nurses - you may not have a belief at any level that nurses should be female, but you'd have to be blind not to notice that they usually are. So "nurse" is closer to "female" than "male" in your thing space.