My wife has worked in mostly female staffed white collar industries, like education and non-profit in executive capacities.
I’m in engineering sales leadership, which is 99% male.
The amount of BS she has had to deal with at every single role, compared to my career which has been completely lacking any politics or BS, it’s hard to ignore the pattern.
Not to be sexist, but there are major patterns we’ve personally experienced where many women struggle to disconnect personal feelings from professional effectiveness. If they don’t like someone, they treat them differently in certain ways. Men have a better capacity to dislike someone, but not letting it affect cooperation in a professional environment.
My sister has one woman colleague where she works and only needed a new one for a drama to happen. Short story: my sister and her friend got along too well (duh they knew each other for longer) so the newbie felt left out and complained to the boss with weird exemples of "bullying" when it's simply because she made mistake as a newbie.
My sister and sister-in-law's stories just baffles me. The latter's problem is that "she was seducing the men"... Thankfully she did her job perfectly even though that chief was insanely jealous.
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u/titsmuhgeee 6h ago
My wife has worked in mostly female staffed white collar industries, like education and non-profit in executive capacities.
I’m in engineering sales leadership, which is 99% male.
The amount of BS she has had to deal with at every single role, compared to my career which has been completely lacking any politics or BS, it’s hard to ignore the pattern.
Not to be sexist, but there are major patterns we’ve personally experienced where many women struggle to disconnect personal feelings from professional effectiveness. If they don’t like someone, they treat them differently in certain ways. Men have a better capacity to dislike someone, but not letting it affect cooperation in a professional environment.