“Every time we got on our monthly call, the business leader would welcome all the men by name. ‘Hi John. Hi Neil.’ And then when all the women would sign on to the call, he would say, ‘Are the ladies all here?’ It wasn’t blatant sexism, but it definitely created the feeling that we were outsiders. We didn’t feel like we belonged in the same way the men did.” Angela’s story illustrated how corporate cultures develop an “in” group and an “out” group. We did it to each other in middle school, and we still do it to each other as adults.
