#11 “I was speaking passionately about a particular option when one of my male colleagues said, ‘Okay, okay...just calm down.’”

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“We were in a project meeting, engaging in what should have been a healthy debate about the direction we were going to take with a client pitch. I was speaking passionately about a particular option when one of my male colleagues said, ‘Okay, okay...just calm down.’ This wasn't the first time I heard this phrase, nor has it been the last. Never in my 20 years as a professional have I ever heard this said to a male.”

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