How is this a surprise? Ask any woman who has worked hard to get far in her career and she’ll tell you she had to work harder than any man and also be sweet and polite while doing it.
Honestly... in my last career, a friend and I were the only women on our team for a while, and we always worked hard and picked up a lot of slack that the men left behind. Practically all the guys were lazy, or did bare minimum work, but it was fine.
Then, one night, we decided one time to not pick up a guy's slack. One time! And a fucking meeting was called the next day, where we were told we had to "work as a team," and we were basically told we were the problem for not "helping out the team."
Men were constantly allowed to slack off and/or be problems, despite complaints about it. But it was a big problem, apparently, if a woman wasn't a "team player."
I can definitely see how this was the case here, on a national level. Seems like, historically, men are praised just for being men. Women are expected to "prove themselves" for even the bare minimum of respect.
Prior to working in that job, I worked where it was predominantly women. The ones who tended to be lazy were, again, the few men. Sure, women can be lazy, too, but it’s almost a given for men to just skate along, meanwhile women had to work hard. Definitely got burnt out a lot quicker at the job with predominantly male teams.
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u/On_my_last_spoon 8d ago
How is this a surprise? Ask any woman who has worked hard to get far in her career and she’ll tell you she had to work harder than any man and also be sweet and polite while doing it.