Thursday, January 7, 2016

"Madeleine Albright Says: Learn to Interrupt, But Only If You Know What You’re Talking About"

"Probably every woman you know, certainly every woman I know, has been in meetings where you're the only woman in the room, and you want to make some kind of a comment and you think, Okay, I'm not going to say that, because it sounds stupid. And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you're really mad at yourself for not having spoken. I had that experience most of my life...

What the men do in a meeting is kind of say, "Well, as Joe said ..." And they support the fact that that guy made a comment. If you're the only woman in the room, you have nobody to do that with you. So it's important to have more than one woman in the room, so that in fact you can say, "As Jennifer said ..." Now, that presumes that we agree with each other, but the bottom line is, at least if there's more than one woman in the room, you're going to be able to have that."

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/06/madeleine-albright-best-advice.html



Ya!! More than one in the room! And all the little things that men do to make each other comfortable and included in spaces. It's that little thing where a guy can go up to the food truck guy or whatever, and say "Hey man, can I get...". If a woman is included in that interaction, it can't get that informal or relational.

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