Examples needed please

I required protective clothing as part of my role for work so had to go to the warehouse. Lots of men around. The man in charge of the clothing started moaning when I refused to try the trousers on in front of everyone and went into the loo cubicle which was right next to where we were standing. He also stated that sadly he couldn't offer me any pink work boots as no doubt that is what I wanted and that next they'll be making PPE skirts as its PC gone mad.

Whilst cleaning in another job being asked to give him (a customer) a wipe down too.

Doctors not listening, talking down and refusing to acknowledge facts in favour of an anxiety diagnosis.

Having to get other people to say my ideas in order to get change to occur.

Getting treated with more kindness and authority in emails when they haven't figured out I'm a woman as my name can be misread.

Trying to buy a phone with my husband in an actual shop and the salesman only talked to my husband and dismissed my complaint about phones being too big and I couldn't use the one he was showing us effectively as I would need two hands. Of course the phone was for me.

Glazing sellers asking for my husband when trying to sell door to door.

My son had long blonde hair and played football .. many people said how lovely it was that the boys accepted 'her' in the team. My daughter played on a mixed hockey team, she was one of the best players on the team, when she had the ball, the opposition would back away, because they knew they could not get the ball from her, her own team wouldn't pass to her because she was a girl. They also excluded her from chat and from training. I raised this with a parent who I thought was a friend, she had three boys, I wanted her to chat to her boys about including my daughter, she got her husband to speak to me and he gave me some bullshit about everyone being in the team on merit and gender being an old fashioned idea that should be left behind .. he is a surgeon..

What is intriguing in this is that my actual boy.. who had girls hair, was not discriminated against by people who didn't know him, all of his team knew he was a boy. But my daughter was... not by the opposition, who respected her skills at the game, but by her own team who refused to include her.

2 pages of excellent examples so far today. Each one provoking an 🙄

when I text/ email male workmen I often don't get a response. When my husband does he will invariably get a response. It drives me mad.

I am part of a parents eco group. We organise secondhand hand sales and look after the school garden. One male teacher was doing something with the pond and specifically asked the male members of our group to help on the day of our sale. I pointed out how important it was for our male members to be visible buying and selling children's clothes and that we were all capable of handling a shovel and it would be much better to have some of the women who help in the garden to also help with the pond.

Daughter: performed well in the setting test for Maths but was not put in the top set because 'the teachers were also looking for behaviours that they knew led to success'. She was moved.

Many times, I had to remind teachers that putting quiet well behaved girls beside challenging boys was not appropriate.

I raised a few issues about ingrained sex biased behaviours with DDs school and was invited to a discussion with 4 male teachers. One later sent me an article about the performance of boys in English and said the reason why girls do not choose A Level Physics and Maths is because they are too good at English and if boys were better at English, maybe it would be more equal..

Going to a reception at Google in SW1 for entrepreneurs at Cambridge who’d done brilliant things like breed bees to sniff for drugs at airports.

I was the only woman except for the uniformed waitresses. Luckily I was in a red dress so no danger of being asked to plate the sushi. But it took a good 15 minutes to let me in! The women on the door were most suspicious.

The mum of one of the boys in my DC's class in primary school, if ever he was a bit over sensitive or fussy about something, she would sneer at him, "You're such a girl," or, "Don't be such a girl." Like being a girl was the worst thing you could be. She had a daughter as well and I wonder how it made her feel, hearing her mum use "girl" as an insult.

@ProfessorBinturong I was one of the few girls studying physics at my school. When I did well in a class test, the male teacher sneered, "I see a girl got the top mark"

Me, engineer, talking to my tenant, musical theatre professional.. 'helps' me back out of our shared driveway when all I need is him to get out of my way, rolls his eyes when I suggest we unplug his multiway sockets to see what is tripping the electricity - guess who waa right?

One from school where I captained the chess team. The teacher from the opposing school saw my name - initial only - and guessed a range of boys names before I stepped forward.

Not an example.
My all girls prep school the 6 houses were named after women in the Ladybird series.
Cavel - blue
Curie - white
Fry - orange
Keller - yellow
And 2 others I forget.

It could be, but unlikely. In every school I’ve had children at they call me first regardless of how we’ve entered numbers on the form and even when I’ve specifically said DH should be the primary contact.

one school only ever called me and even when my phone was broken, kept my DC who had thrown up in school until the end of the day rather than call DH when I didn’t answer.

Primary school: so many examples.

Boys had more after school sports than girls... when I asked why the girls could not use the pitch 2 afternoons per week I was asked 'where would the boys go?'

They were given a break time slot instead.

I asked about female representation in the areas of STEM and the example that was given were that the recent male scientist who came to talk said Marie Curie was his favourite scientist.

The school sent more boys than girls to a race competition when the could have sent the same number of girls and boys. They also were limited in the number of football teams they could send to a competition so they sent 4 boys teams and 1 girls team.

The house names were all male.. in defense, they cited tradition.

Many frustrating conversations were had!!

Went to a venue to talk about room hire for a class. It's my small business, I recently employed a tutor to do the odd class for me. I'm a woman late 40s, he's a man late 50s. He was with me but I did all the talking. Venue employee directed everything he said to my tutor who had barely said a word at this point. Clearly assumed that the man must be in charge when in fact it's entirely my own business and the tutor had literally just started working with me.

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6012/womens-experiences-of-everyday-sexism-and-sexual-harassment-inquiry/

https://www.thebelongingeffect.co.uk/everyday-sexism-a-powerful-call-to-action-from-after-laura-bates-what-schools-can-no-longer-ignore/

https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/sexism-and-misogyny-policing/applying-behavioural-science-sexism-and-misogyny

https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/casual-sexism-must-be-consigned-to-the-history-books

If older stories are of any use, I have one from the 90s. I was one of very few girls in my school doing A-level physics. One day I was early to class, having had a free period beforehand, so sat and read a book. The teacher was next to arrive. Usually he ignored all the girls in the class, but with absolutely nobody else there he felt he ought to make some sort of conversation and asked what I was reading. I was absorbed in the book and didn't like him much so just flipped it up so he could see the cover.

His response was 'Oh, is it a romance?'

I can't find an exact copy online of what was reading, but it was on this topic with a very similar title and cover: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jutland-Unfinished-Battle-Nicholas-Jellicoe/dp/1526737280/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?

I believe this clause, if in the UK, is not legal for the very reason that there is a gender pay gap and women need to be be able to discuss pay to determine if the adversely affected by discrimination.

Headmaster of a private school my friends were looking at for their kids when he met them - the mum arranged and booked the meeting. She has an Oxbridge PhD.
Headmaster comes rushing towards the husband, hand outstretched, saying 'Dr. Smith, how lovely to meet you and your wife...'

I was with my female friend and neighbour when we met the man from round the corner. He told my friend she was “top crumpet” and it made his day to watch her jog past in her shorts. She was completely blindsided, mortified. I left him in no doubt that he was completely out of order. No wonder so many women feel unable to keep fit. He went off with his tail between his legs. I hope he will think twice before “complimenting” someone in this way again. I think he will because I asked him what his wife would think if she knew what he’d said, and he knows I would tell her.

Scheduling (and kit) priorties in my DDs sport.
Mens First team
Mens Second Team
Colts (Boys U18)
Veterans/Mens Thirds
Boys U16
Women
Boys U15/14
Girls U18/U16
Boys U13/U12
Mixed (mostly boys) U11/U10
Girls U14/U12
Minis (mixed, mostly boys).

Indeed. I often resort to using the 'two scotsmen in a voice activated lift' clip to explain why no thank you I'm not going to be relying on voice activated stuff anywhere in my life if I can help it.

Well I've never had any issue putting dad as first point of contact on specific days with one kid and me on the others, then now, grandmother for all kids.

The amount of parents’ evenings where the (usually male) teacher looked at and talked to my husband 98% of the time.

My mother used to complain of this 30 years before. Hardly changed in that time.

Being told how lucky I am DP can cook. No one has ever once told him he's so lucky I can cook.

Older relatives referring to DP looking after the kids as babysitting. No, he's fucking parenting, you dolts. Like I do while he works away 3 days a week.

@Lexibletheflexible - it's not that. I've worked in school offices and I've seen some members of staff ring the mother even when the father was the first point of contact. It's so ingrained in some people.

Minor sexism - everyone referring to all animals as 'he' when they don't know the sex. It's literally 50/50 in most cases and almost all female in others (bees, stick insects, some spiders).