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"Cosmopolitan.com asked women to share stories of sexism at work. Here are some of the infuriating things they&amp;#039;ve experienced: 1. &amp;quot;Once, one of the executives looked at me and said, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s too bad we didn&amp;#039;t know each other 20 years ago, we could have had a lot of fun together.&amp;#039; He then smiled, looked me up and down, and winked.&amp;quot; \u2014 26, Detroit, MI 2. &amp;quot;I worked at a restaurant last summer to save some money before the school year. After a week of working there, I was given more responsibility than my male workers. I am a fast learner, but in this case, I couldn&amp;#039;t help but notice that my male coworkers slacked at work and made excuses. When I brought it up, my manager said that women just worked better than men so I shouldn&amp;#039;t take it seriously.&amp;quot; \u2014 22, Brooklyn, NY 3. &amp;quot;I manage a bar/entertainment venue and my boss consistently undermines my ability to address incidents when they arise. I am more direct, firm, and levelheaded than my fellow managers when confronting a customer or handling a situation that requires immediate action and quick decision making, but my boss always tells me to let my male subordinates take care of it because &amp;#039;people will listen to the guys more.&amp;#039; I was promoted to be a manager because I&amp;#039;m qualified to do the job, and it&amp;#039;s frustrating that I rarely have a chance to display it and earn respect from my coworkers. Sometimes I feel as if I were promoted just to be the pretty face of the company so they can look hip and attract a younger, trendier crowd.&amp;quot; \u2014 23, Boston, MA 4. &amp;quot;My boss no longer asks me to travel for work now that we have guys on our team. He says they are safer when traveling alone. I&amp;#039;m 30 years old and not his child (his daughter is almost my age and he thinks of us as the same) ... He needs to treat me with equal respect as he does the others.&amp;quot; \u2014 30, Philadelphia, PA 5. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a female manager at a movie theater. My head boss is a male. He has bluntly stated before that he doesn&amp;#039;t care about women&amp;#039;s needs (like, having a tampon dispenser in the restroom that actually works). This also includes who gets scheduled for certain shifts. He likes to have all women work together for one shift and all the men work together for another shift. This makes things difficult for the women who can&amp;#039;t lift heavy objects as well as the men can. When my female coworkers and I confronted him with these issues, he said, &amp;#039;Women should be aware of their period issues and bring their own tampons. The heavy lifting isn&amp;#039;t my problem, it&amp;#039;s the woman&amp;#039;s problem. Maybe try lifting?&amp;#039; Talk about a sexist jerk.&amp;quot; \u2014 20, Morgantown, WV 6. &amp;quot;Upon meeting in person a peer I&amp;#039;d only spoken to via email, he said: You&amp;#039;re much prettier than I thought you&amp;#039;d be.&amp;quot; \u2014 42, New York, NY 7. &amp;quot;When I was working in Canada, there was this sales rep who always gave me the creeps. He was generally offensive, but once, when it was a million degrees at the office, he was talking really loudly about how he loves it when it gets warm out because girls wear so much less clothing. He then looks over at me and starts commenting that he &amp;quot;never knew how great my legs were,&amp;quot; and thankfully everyone in the office freaked out, saying that was totally inappropriate, but it didn&amp;#039;t change the fact that it made me so uncomfortable that until I left the office I wouldn&amp;#039;t wear anything but pants that summer.&amp;quot; \u2014 26, New York, NY 8. &amp;quot;I work in a very fashion-forward office, but not everyone in the company is fashion-forward. Wearing what I thought was a perfectly appropriate outfit, I walked across our office to the bathroom we shared with another division. On my way, I walked by four women talking. Almost immediately, I heard one of them literally &amp;#039;tsk&amp;#039; and another whisper something unintelligible except for the word &amp;#039;short.&amp;#039; I didn&amp;#039;t turn around or say anything, but I did duck my head and shuffle to my desk on the way back. I know there&amp;#039;s no comfortable way to tell someone you think their skirt is too short for work, but the worst thing you could do is freaking hiss at each other about it while I was in earshot. It would&amp;#039;ve been rude and degrading coming from anyone, but the fact that it was other women almost made it worse. It&amp;#039;s just not the kind of environment any woman wants to work in!&amp;quot; \u2014 23 New York, NY 9. &amp;quot;A director at one company I worked at would always yell out, to our entire office (which was an open floor plan), &amp;#039;Whoa, look who has a date tonight!&amp;#039; every time I left work wearing lipstick. I don&amp;#039;t even wear lipstick on dates (making out, etc.), so every time he did this, I was actually just having drinks or dinner with friends and wanted to look nice.&amp;quot; \u2014 28, New York, NY 10. &amp;quot;A temp agency sent us a male receptionist. My boss told me to call them and say it wasn&amp;#039;t working out because &amp;#039;you don&amp;#039;t send a man to do a woman&amp;#039;s job.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; \u2014 28, Maitland, FL 11. &amp;quot;I am a chemist and we have a machine shop that prepares some of our samples. A male coworker said to me, &amp;#039;The guys in the machine shop only do things for you because you shake your tits at them.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; \u2014 24, Philadelphia, PA 12. &amp;quot;My former boss, who is male, would often make derogatory, sexual comments to me even with male coworkers in the room. One day, I told everyone that I won a chance to meet a famous female singer. He said, &amp;#039;Give her a sloppy French kiss for me.&amp;#039; Between that and the inappropriate touching, I was so relieved once I found work elsewhere.&amp;quot; \u2014 22, Charlotte, NC 13. &amp;quot;I interned with a newspaper during college. I worked in a male-dominant department \u2014 there were three females total \u2014 and the men were 40-plus. On my first day, my editor told me the dress code was business casual, but &amp;#039;don&amp;#039;t doll up too much&amp;#039; because the other women in the newsroom could &amp;#039;become jealous.&amp;#039; A different day, the reporter I was shadowing was talking to a group of other staffers, when I noticed them looking over at me, grumbling things to each other and then stifling laughter. He noticed me staring at them, came over to me and said, &amp;#039;They&amp;#039;re jealous because I talk to you. They wish they could have one-on-one time with the interns.&amp;#039; These were only two experiences from a long list of sexist occurrences. I spoke to my advisor about it and she allowed me to find another internship immediately. I don&amp;#039;t think any of my male peers were told not to dress a certain way or made to feel like an office trophy. It was an eye-opening experience and has made me extremely passionate about standing up against workplace sexism.&amp;quot; \u2014 24, Wilkes-Barre, PA 14. &amp;quot;When I was offered a job, I attempted to negotiate my salary with the HR person. She told me that my new boss wouldn&amp;#039;t like me if I asked for more money, and that I&amp;#039;d be starting my job on the wrong foot. She also told me I was lucky to be offered the job in the first place. I feel like all of these tactics would never have been used on a male employee. I&amp;#039;m still angry about it!&amp;quot; \u2014 27, New York, NY 15. &amp;quot;My male boss pulled me aside one day when I was at work. I had no idea what he wanted to talk about. When we sat down, he just blurted out, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re unapproachable.&amp;#039; He couldn&amp;#039;t cite any specific reason for why he felt he should tell me this, but it was awfully hard for me to imagine him having the same conversation with a male employee.&amp;quot; \u2014 29, New York, NY 16. &amp;quot;When my boss found out that I was offered a better job (that would require me to relocate to a larger city), his first attempt in trying to talk me out of leaving went something like: &amp;#039;Well, what about your boyfriend? You&amp;#039;re not really going to move to the city alone, are you?&amp;#039; Instead of discussing salary, the possibility of relocation, or why I wanted to leave the company in the first place, it appears he thought that my love life should be addressed before my career goals.&amp;quot; \u2014 25, New York, NY "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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