directors

Elena

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I’m a company founder, director. The subcontractors who build on my site refer to me repeatedly as ‘girl’. The subcontractor I pay, also bullied me by saying I don’t have experience in construction so I don’t know what I am doing. This is everyday sexism for you. I assure you, no man has ever been called ‘boy’ and told him he does not have construction experience by the builder hired to do his fucking job.

it’s me, the director

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I’m in my 50s and was in a meeting with a male colleague and a client. We’d be working with them a month or so. The client’s representative, a one-man-band contractor, not only did not realise I was the engineering director, but was stunned to silence when repeatedly told by my colleague that I was. One of the most insulting moments in my long career. The sooner the old boys club retires, the better.