gender

Created
Thu, 03/11/2022 - 05:28
The debilitating challenges women face in being heard are detrimental to economic prosperity and to democracy itself.

As any woman who has tried to get her point across in a professional setting is acutely aware, a lot of men have trouble listening when a female colleague speaks. They talk over women, shut them down, and incessantly interrupt. They even engage in “bropriation” -- appropriating something a woman has said as their own. Worse still, the guilty men generally have little awareness of their exasperating behavior.