I work in a male dominated industry. Yesterday I did a presentation on something technical to a group of customers, all middle aged men. Throughout the presentation, whenever the customers had any technical questions, they turned to my two male colleagues to ask them. My colleagues, instead of directing the question back at me, proceeded to answering them. This really boiled my piss but I remained professional and polite so didn't say anything. (Important customers so I didn't want to cause a scene.)
The subject is my expertise and I could full well have answered their questions as well as my colleagues, if not better.
One of my colleagues have just sent me an email with some suggestions on how to improve my presentation. The major one being that I must have come across as a bit unsure as the customers were directing their questions to him and not me. (He asked if I had noticed them doing this!!!)
I might possibly have come across as unsure, I didn't feel like I did but I'm not ruling it out. However I'm sure the main reason they didn't asked me was because men don't think women know shit and prefer asking men! (I was also 20 years younger than everyone else in the room.)
I want to reply and say I did indeed notice, and to point him in the direction of an article that explains why men tend to do this but can't find any. Does anyone know of a good one?
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Help me find an article on why men prefer male opinions please
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penisbeakerlaminateflooringetc · 12/05/2016 12:30
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13/05/2016 10:22
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