Women on “Buzzfeed” shared the outdated gender roles they face regularly in the workplace.
● "I was the lead project manager reporting directly to the CEO for a male-dominated digital marketing firm. If our admin wasn't there, I was expected to make coffee, deliver coffee to clients, clean up the office, etc. Every other person in that particular office (all male) was my subordinate, yet I was not permitted to delegate those tasks to them because they were 'too busy'."
● "At a new job, my older male supervisor called me 'honey' while requesting I make coffee. First, I am not an executive assistant. Second, I do not drink coffee. Third, I replied by calling him 'Sweetheart.' He never called me 'honey' or asked me to make coffee again."
● "When I was working as a waitress I was told I should wear makeup to work. I never wear makeup and the male waiters were NOT told the same thing."
● "Appear happy or cheery at all times. I once had someone approach me after a meeting that went absolutely fine and say, 'You seemed upset, what’s wrong?' And I had NO idea what she was talking about.
● "Anything that might fall under 'housekeeping' or typically female duties (eye roll) like organizing social functions, general tidying, baking, and organizing gifts. Apparently we 'like doing those things'...”
● "Suggesting a solution and being met with blank stares — only to have a man say the same thing later and be met with praise and atta-boy’s from the other men in the room.”
● "Meeting notes. Apparently, men are incapable of taking, transcribing, and distributing them.”
Source: Buzzfeed