Boys, do you prefer to network with mostly other males?
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Lucy
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Post Date: 11th January 2008, 03:26 AM
Hello readers.
I was just wondering about a phenomenon I've noticed in the workplace and other environments where people on a similar career path come together (e.g. uni), and it's that guys often make more effort to network with other guys than with the women (e.g. me), and I've noticed in some situations a guy will ignore me to the point that it seems deliberate and talk only with the guys. I'll see them shaking hands, giving one another a lot of eye contact and recognition, and I don't receive any of that. It's not like I don't make an effort. If you are a guy, and you are ambitious in your career, do you think this ever happens? Can you tell me what this phenomenon is? I think I am as smart, career focussed and ambitious as most others and often more, but I sometimes experience this kind of exclusion from guys who I would expect to have a lot of reason to be talking shop with. I am in a slightly male dominated field, and feel that perhaps it is my gender which is going to cause me somewhat of an obstacle because of what I suspect may be the formation of boys clubs in the workplace. Am I paranoid?
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