Wot @PlanDeRaccordement said
I'm female, and an equal opportunity interrupter. Sometimes, occasionally it's appropriate because it's my meeting, we have an urgent issue to resolve and no time for listening to rants we have heard many times.
Lowering my voice and taking a good lungful of air, means I can keep going till they give up in my meetings.
Many, many times it's not appropriate and means that ultimately, I miss out on information or ideas that would have been helpful. My most powerful self control measure is to write down the questions that occur to me instead of asking them as they occur to me.
If someone else interrupts with not quite on point questions, when I am chairing, I ask them to park that question,m ( in remote myths, by adding it to the chat, in a room by having one separate flip chart for the questions) and make a note of it myself. I make a point of coming back to it before the end of the meeting, or at least, in my follow up notes.
Reading these replies, I realise that Our environment has a very flat structure. My meetings are mostly project related, where we can only get the job done with input from across the board. People whose proposed solutions have worked well tend to be listened to. People whose proposed solutions could not be implemented, tend to get shorter shrift and are more likely to be interrupted especially if they try to explain why what went wrong was not their fault.