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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a bit older than OP- about 30 years in. I have had a variety of absolutely wonderful experiences and a few that were just nuts that really stand out. More recently (say 22 years into my solid career) I had a woman "manager" who didn't want me to talk on phone calls. I was the SME with the advanced degrees and she was threatened. It's little things like that that can chip away.

I think maybe this could happen to a man as well, but he might brush it off. In any case, I brushed it off, continued to do what I was hired for, and we both got moved out of each others' orbits.

On the flip side, I was very vocal in a meeting to a (male) PM that we were not able to move forward because he was not bringing the right players to the meetings. There was nobody who understood the issues AND could make decisions. I was very matter-of-fact about it, because it was...fact. He got very defensive and told me to stop yelling at him. That was very eye-rolling and I would feel exactly the same way if genders were reversed.

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