Are you a woman who has the audacity to exist in a professional space? Well. You'll be all too familiar with interruptions and being 'mansplained' to on a regular basis, no doubt.
Why does this happen?
How does it negatively impact your professional development?
What can you do about it?
In this episode I'll give you some potential reasons why we experience this type of behaviour at work. Research on this topic suggests that we perceive women in a way that doesn't always match the reality. While that is unfair and further complicates the issues, we mustn't despair. It is our collective responsibility to do better and to reshape how we communicate with each other in our professional spaces.
Please enjoy this episode featuring a lot of me sighing because women having to find ways of functioning in the face of micro-aggressions is some tedious bullshit. *sigh* Many thanks to a listener in Australia for requesting this topic!
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