I've recently moved offices (same job, new office) and from sharing with two others, am not in an open plan office with 10 others. The other 10 are all men of a certain age, primarily ex military, who never seem to have worked with women before. Every day this week they have:
got coffees in for everyone else but me
asked everyone but me if they want to go to lunch
not introduced me (and only me) at an important
meeting, so I had to introduce myself and felt like a right divvy
told really nasty sexist jokes loudly in the office (eg why did the woman have two black eyes? She had to be told twice)
And today when the photocopier jammed when I was using it, one commented really loudly, "You should never trust women with cars or modern technology. They crash one and can't cope with the other without buggering the whole thing up." And they all collapsed laughing.
I said to this last that such comments didn't particularly bother me, but they should be careful making them in front of the other woman we work with as she almost certainly wouldn't appreciate them, and such remarks could get them into trouble To which I was told to "Get a life and a sense of humour."
The other woman is more senior than them, but she seems terrified of them, lets them walk all over her and is unlikely to back me up in any complaint. Any suggestions of how to handle them? The office where I work is 99.9% male, they see women as wives/mothers or secretaries and cannot cope with career women, so making complaints higher up the chain is unlikely to help.
Perhaps some jokes about small men might help in retaliation, or should I not bring myself down to their level?