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>>>>And for those of us who came up being, quite often, the only woman in an office of men there is a part of me that says "Whaddya expect from a pig but a grunt?"
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>>>There's more here, too, than just the obvious. Men and women, for the most part, speak differently and behave differently in speaking, and that tends to have negative consequences for women in business settings. I recently read (though it's not new) Deborah Tannen's "Talking from 9 to 5" and it talks a lot about these issue.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Would be interested in hearing some examples.
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>Unfortunately, it was a library book and I returned it, so I don't have it here. But one process for which she showed several examples was a woman making a suggestion only to have it ignored and then a man making the same suggestion and having it adopted and the woman's original suggestion of it never recognized.

Been there - had it happen multiple times. I especially loved the times when I would make a suggestion only to be ignored (or shot down), another woman would make the same suggestion a little later with the same reactions and 5 minutes later one of the guys would make the same bleeding suggestion and "OMG BEST IDEA EVRRRRRRRRR!"

Or, to point out a possible issue, get told I'm being negative and then one of the guys point out the same possible issue and 'OMG WAY to look ahead!!!!"

Yeah....I love me some of that.

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>A big theme was men seeing the world as conflict, while women see it as cooperation. (The book acknowledges that such generalizations don't apply to everyone, but cites plenty of research to support the generalizations.)
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>Tamar