Be wary of a situation where you’re the first woman on the team and you get the spoken or unspoken message that they’re glad to have you because they expect you to make the team grow up and act like professionals.
I had to hold my jaw up when I was talking to someone socially who actually said this. And it sounded like they were satisfied they had found one woman and were ‘done.’ I had to hold back telling them how horrible they were because of the relationships involved, but I thought this stuff was just in cartoon dysfunctional organizations....
