Sionis has what seems to be complete control over Dinah, professionally. Speaking of Dinah, we can also see that male entitlement play out in her part of the story. Fortunately, Dinah Lance (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) intervenes. This man has additional plans for Harley, but it's strongly implied that an assault is likely. He has her up against the building's exterior wall and is a bit sexually aggressive with her even though Harley is drunkenly protesting. There's a scene in which an extremely intoxicated Harley is taken out of the nightclub by a man with obvious ill intent. The sense of entitlement to women's bodies and existence by men plays out in other ways as well. The Joker is a major figure in Gotham's crime world so when it comes out that Harley is no longer his girl and, therefore, not under his protection men with axes to grind come out of the woodwork to go after Harley - including Sionis. Viewers quickly learn that Harley and the Joker are no longer a couple and that being in that relationship was largely what kept Harley safe.
For starters, there's how Harley ends up involved. It's a pretty straightforward villainous scheme, but when you add in more details it becomes clear that for as bad as Sionis is, he's part of that larger toxicity. When that diamond is stolen literally out of Zsasz's, pocket by Cassandra, getting it back is Sionis' focus and he ends up putting a bounty on the young girl to make it happen - though he wants her brought in alive, not dead because he's a sadistic man, something established by how he deals with a rival gangster and his family. In Birds of Prey, nightclub owner and gangster Sionis is attempting to make a big play to rule Gotham City's criminal underbelly and the key to all of it is the Bertinelli diamond, a legendary gem that just so happens to have the bank account numbers to the Bertinelli crime family fortune engraved on it.
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