SK - I was referring to what you were saying about your social set up. That social set up does not exist everywhere else in the world and only applies to where you are located.
Where I live - both my female and male co-workers may remarks such as “nice dress” or “nice dress - you’re looking good today” or “nice dress - any plans after work today?”. And I do the same also.
To those I am friendly with I will say “Let’s have coffee / lunch one of these days”. The include co workers and senior managers where sometimes I meet them for purely professional reasons but the interaction is very social.
Where I lives it’s normal to men to have female friends and for women to have male friends.