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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, do not talk to the female co-author. She's trouble and will make your life hell.[/quote]

Found the misogynist. [/quote]

Has nothing to do with her sex, but she's already making trouble where there's no issue.[/quote]

There absolutely is an issue: OP did shoddy work. The author absolutely should have pointed out the shoddy work since 1. It reflects on her personally since she’s in the piece and 2. It reflects on the university who pays OP.

Pointing out bad work isn’t “making trouble”. [/quote]

I agree.  Think about it from her perspective:  You're on a team of two people; you're the senior person.  You do a call with an outside marketing person. Your junior colleague talks over you the whole call, which is something that is very difficult to control or counter.  No one ever sends you the release; it goes out to the public. It refers to you as "co-authors" (which you can stomach) but proceeds to quote him 5 times and you once.  I'd be pissed, go to the admin person who was responsible for liaising with the marketing company and complain. I would probably also say something to my admin about "this is so typical of the racism and sexism that is endemic in academia."   Because it actually is typical of the racism and sexism that is endemic in academia.

To those saying it was on the author to speak up.... yeesh way to victim blame.  Even Supreme Court justices, who are literal experts in advocating their positions with force, are statistically talked over and interrupted exponentially more than their male colleagues.  They are interrupted by their male colleagues and even by the people who are speaking before the court.  If Sotomayor can't control mansplaining, why would you expect a random academic, who's job involves almost no public speaking or advocacy, to be able to manage that dynamic? [/quote]

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