Is this the current viewpoint of feminist philosophers, or was this an idea that gained popularity back when there weren't very many women who were scientists, so the misogynistic idea that (at least the very overwhelming majority of) women didn't have the mental capacity to do science was in the air, and the philosophers retorted, "Well, women just have a different way of thinking which is just as good as your fuddy-duddy 'science' thing! Hmph!"

In the meantime, there have been oodles of women who have been and are amazing scientists, which should pretty much put that concern to rest, if it was one.

And, of course, the epistemology underlying the scientific method seems highly unintuitive for men, too; otherwise, we wouldn't have needed so many millennia to hit upon it, and wouldn't keep falling into the same traps of authority and group consensus and bias towards one's own ideas and so on mucking everything up when we cannot or do not defer sufficiently heavily to empirical evidence.

Anyway, is this still a viewpoint that is embraced by feminist philsophers?