Tag: females

Have you ever been told you need to stop speaking up in meetings because it’s rubbing people the wrong way or that you were being too aggressive by speaking up? Or maybe you were told you are too quiet, and that’s why coworkers are speaking over you. Maybe you’ve been told you m...

I heard this repeated often, to justify unequal treatment in relation to my brother when I was growing up. He was ‘worth’ sending to private school, myself and my sisters were not. He was attentively listened to, while we, his three older sisters were not. He was treated like the head...