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17. My most pleasant working experiences have been with nearly all female staff.
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 03:08 PM
Jun 2012

Nearly all of the admins were female too, at one place I'm thinking of. It was great, very empowering and things went incredibly smoothly.

Now I work in a school--once out with all of our department staff at a professional development event, we took a break for lunch. There are only two female teachers, myself and one other. We left the line after ordering lunch and found that all of the other male teachers had found a table just for themselves and not one big enough for all of us to sit together. We literally had to sit by ourselves at the "girls" table. I said something about it too, and they all looked at me in poutrage. Some of them didn't speak to me for the rest of the school year. I doubt they meant it maliciously, they just didn't think about it at all.

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