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Unfortunately, everyday sexism is alive and well. Though progress continues to be made in terms of women’s rights, the fight doesn’t end: subtle, casual sexism rears its ugly head when we least expect it. Some men, for instance, still don’t believe that a woman can run a company.

Sports industry expert Cathy Long, the CEO of Aposto, went viral on Twitter after sharing an example of everyday sexism in the workplace. She explained how she missed a client meeting because she simply wasn’t invited to it. The client left her out because he thought she was “just doing the admin.”

Other women shared examples of workplace sexism from their own lives. Scroll down to read what they said, Pandas, and if you’re feeling up to it, you can open up about similar experiences that you had at work and elsewhere, in the comments.

More info: Twitter | Aposto.co.uk

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With Cathy having over 20 years of experience working with Premier League football clubs, you’d expect that all of her clients would know who she was and at least give her the time of day.

Unfortunately, some guys still live in the past and don’t see women as their equals: they prefer dealing with other men. The result? It impacts women’s businesses. Look, at the end of the day, if the bottom line is one of the things that suffer as a result of sexism, something seriously needs to change.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ones like this need followups ... the reactions and fallout. We need to know!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And you just lost my business/vote/support/FUNDING of your agenda, a*****e.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Experienced this in a college classroom of a very misogynistic professor. I would make a very valid point or observation, and he would give me the deer in the headlights look. A minute later, one of the idiot guys would repeat the exact same thing I just said—-VER👏 BA👏 TIM👏!!!—-and the prof would applaud HIM as a f*****g genius! If someone else, even another guy, pointed out that I had just said that and been ignored, the prof would give them the same deer in the headlights look I got. A*****e. Even his colleagues in the department agreed he was long overdue for being put out to pasture, and we’re actively trying by severely reducing his class load. Problem was that he had tenure and was impossible to boot out. Sad state of affairs for the students, especially the female students, who had to endure his class.

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Very recently, Bored Panda spoke about sexism, misogyny, and toxic masculinity with a representative of the ‘Fight the Patriarchy’ Facebook page, as well as writer Ariane Sherine.

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According to ‘Fight the Patriarchy,’ it’s vital to protect the “preborn rights” of everyone: “We don't have to choose, we can fight against all oppression."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

refreshingly nice to hear someone speak up, say they made a mistake and have now learnt from it. bravo.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And get your f*****g hand off my leg, NOW, or I will be mailing it back to you. Pervert.

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“A privileged group thinking they are superior to an underprivileged group is the core of social injustice. Each generation of privileged individuals get taught that they are somehow special and they continue on the oppression of the underprivileged," the representative of the ‘Fight the Patriarchy’ project shared with Bored Panda.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, if I got an email signed Kerri I would ask too unless they was an email signature "Dr Kerri Baker". How it's the recipient meant to know whether the writer is the doctor or a personal assistant?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of this puzzle: A boy cuts his hand; he needs stitches so his dad takes him to the hospital. The doctor gets to work, sows up the hand and scolds the boy for being so careless; and scolds the dad, too. So, after they leave the nurse says to the doctor: "Nice kid. And good looking, too." "Of course he's good looking," says the doctor, "He is my son." - How can that be? Duh, the doctor is his mother.

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I’m a certified non-attorney mediator, with a Masters Degree in Conflict Resolution. My husband has told me, time and time again, that some of the situations I’ve handled (for confidentiality reasons, I could not go into any detail with him, but if you say you’re mediating something like a divorce or child custody, it is implied that sometimes clients’ tempers can flare and they can get rather nasty) would make him fly over the table and beat the ever loving s**t out of some a*****e for being abusive. Basically, I am the one with the intellect, temperament, ability, education, and training to do a very difficult and delicate job that my husband (not a mediator, no college degree) would never be able to, yet there are people who would look past me as just “the wife” (if they even saw me at all), and look to HIM to help them with interpersonal problems.

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"Whether we're talking about men acting superior to women, born humans acting superior to preborn humans, cishet individuals acting superior to LGBTQIA+ individuals, white folks acting superior to POC, humans acting superior to nonhuman animals, or able-bodied individuals acting superior to the disabled, what would need to change is each of these privileged groups being open to how they or their ideologies have harmed the underprivileged."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Regardless, never ask someone you don't know for coffee unless they offer to get it for you. ITS BASIC MANNERS

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According to ‘Fight the Patriarchy,’ true justice can only be achieved when people are “deprogrammed from the oppression they were raised to believe is ‘just how life works.’”

"Cismen need to be able to have an open mind and hear people out as well as tackle the prejudices that have been instilled in them by society. Capitalism, religion, white supremacy, patriarchy, born supremacy, and human supremacy are all detrimental power structures that have harmed vulnerable groups, but it doesn't have to be this way. The individuals who these systems benefit have to do the work to unpack that within themselves."

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heaven forbid the guys get upset. And they say women are emotional and sensitive, with a straight face at that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, I've seen this happen. My vet was once called "little lady" by one of the older clients who was adamant on waiting for the male vet. Said "male vet" was actually a year 2 student intern... She's a saint for putting up with this c**p.

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Meanwhile, writer Ariane said that, in her opinion, what lies at the core of sexism and misogyny is the fear of women’s power and resentment that they’re growing stronger.

“It's not as easy to subjugate us anymore. Of course, men still hold most of the power and wield male privilege, but they're being held to account more and more, and many of them aren't happy about this at all," she told Bored Panda.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This!! I (female) was once responsible for a project that culminated in a final meeting to brief out the results to 35 (male) managers. The MD (male) let everyone settle in then took my notes off me, said “I can take it from here” and asked me to go get coffee and bacon butties for everyone from the canteen.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s insubordination, so I hope you fired his a*s, and explained, in detail, exactly why.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just say "the person at the door" why are people sometimes refering to women as girls? why? just why...

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There definitely has been some progress made towards greater gender equality in the past few decades, however, that doesn’t mean that the fight can ever stop.

“When my mum gave birth to me in 1980, she was expected by society to give up work and look after her kids. As a highly intelligent woman working as a university lecturer, having worked super-hard, prioritized her career and risen up the ranks until this point, this wasn't fair or right," writer Ariane told Bored Panda.

"This wouldn't be an expectation these days—jobs are held open for women and it's illegal to fire someone because they're pregnant," she added that it's also illegal not to hire someone in the first place just because they're pregnant.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, yes. Not being subservient to a man is indeed aggressive. Why, his mother and sister would never act this way! /s

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well Jo isn't a typical female name, but still, just to asume someone is/must be a man is just stupid. also do your f*cking homework and research who you're doing deals with... i hope she said "of course" only to come in the room a bit later to introduce herself to him "ah! XY nice to finally meet you after so many emails!"

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And the client stood there, mouth agape, wondering how the world had changed with him left behind.

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"There are more single women than ever and studies show we're happier than partnered women on average too. Women can have a baby without needing a partner, childcare is more widely available too, and only people stuck in the Dark Ages think less of women who work and put their kids in nursery," the writer shared her thoughts with us.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm petty. i wouldn't have answered and when he asked me later why i would have said "you told me to not say anything" but that would probably cost us the client...

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This happened when I was in the UK: all titles defaulted to me as "Mrs." Despite my username here, which is part of the joke of it, I hate "Mrs." So all of a sudden I'm being sent cards to "Mrs. George Glass," and nope. In the 2010s, this was still the assumption, and note: the men did not have automatic titles, so the cards would look like: "GEORGE GLASS [new line] MRS. JAN GLASS". So that's f****d. I do take great joy in correcting "Actually, it's doctor."

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"However, Roe v. Wade being overturned was a devastating blow for women's reproductive rights and I truly feel for women of childbearing age in America right now. It's an incredibly regressive step and I hope they manage to reverse it," she said.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SHould have brought the coat on stage and given it to him during the presentation

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s like back in the day, when a highly trained professional woman would make the mistake of letting one of the guys find out she could type. Guess who would end up never getting to do the work she was educated and trained for, and be relegated to the position of secretary, while the guys got all the glory, promotions, and raises? Yeah, that’s how it used to be, girls. You really do NOT want to go back there, so you have to fight tooth and nail to keep what has already been achieved, and fight even harder to achieve more. You cannot rest on the laurels of those who came before you, because some a*****e is/group of assholes are out there ready to pull the rug out from under you the millisecond they can. They’ve already severely threatened Roe v Wade, so what more proof do you need?

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“We've taken great progressive strides from where we were in the 1950s when women were expected to be Stepford Wives, so in another 70 years, we may achieve parity with men. At least, that's my hope. And even if the fight against sexism is a constant, never-ending battle, it's one we must never concede."