Been studying the M-F thing for close to a Decade. Reading Anita Shreve (see immediately above) revived my awareness that my professional language-approach, the words I use, the stories I tell, my pace, my mannerisms … are in a Foreign Language for women. A thousand subtleties (not so subtleties!) of my language-approach-posture-tonality-etc. are … All Male. (No matter how aware … intellectually … I am of differences. And I am Very Aware … intellectually.) I am in fact fascinated at how incredibly little progress I’ve made … or am capable of making.
And just think of how backwards the ones are who have not gone through my self-inflicted, decade-long “Awareness 101” tutorial.
I don’t even understand how Ms and Fs get through the days together at work or at home. Well, I guess on second thought … we often-usually don’t.
Business implications: Again … PROFOUND.