Hey again Ronke
Been having some further thoughts on your excellent piece.
There weren’t many women at all working in my specialty ( often, depending on the setting, I was solo), so it made the backing each other up plan basically impossible.

I fought all you wrote about and more until ultimately I walked away from a 20+ year career, giving up SO much to make that decision, yet today I am a better woman for it. Into work Chapter two ( totally different work) when that was never the plan.

Still…walking away due to these misogynistic reasons, how sad that it was basically my only solution.

About ( in general) women further along in their career having at their disposal different ways to cope with “not being heard”: I found that I did , in my start-out years, the same thing I watched other women beginning a career in my industry do ( as few as they were and still are). I still see this happening today also, all though I am no longer there to observe it first hand. But I was there till 2019.

In the beginning we were(are) so focussed on building our business that frankly, we either ignored all the male bulls*** or downplayed/denied it. No time for distractions.
Then gradually we see it in all its intensity and yeah, add it to what needs to be managed.

Wait. This IS 2024 right? Not 1994, 1954🤔