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Oddly, I also came away with an impression of 'male pronoun as default', and on rereading it seems that e.g. I strongly noticed the male pronoun in 13, but did not notice the female pronoun in 14. I guess I've just been trained to notice default-male-pronoun usages. (You did also use 'singular they' in example 7, which to me reads much more naturally than pronoun alternation.)
Huh, I missed the pronoun in 14 too. I suspect the 6:2 ratio is less of an issue than three male references being before the first female one. I noticed "Lisa", but at that point I already had the idea that the article was gender-biased. Confirmation bias I suppose.