“HR told me that the feedback from my colleagues was that I hogged the conversation during meetings. Hogged. Can you believe that?” Letitia looked at her husband, Darnell, who held up his hands. “I wisely learned to stay quiet years ago,” he said. She narrowed her eyes at him. “Anyway. I started to count the minutes I actually spoke at these meetings, and it was far less than any man did. In fact, it was a quarter of the time.” “I once read an article about that,” Melina said. “When women talk twenty-five percent of the time in a room, people think it feels balanced. If they talk twenty-five
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