Manager says female employee sounds ‘disrespectful’ in email, so she shows him an identical email from praised male coworker: 'I refuse to be overly polite'

It's fair to say that society is not fair, we can all agree on that. What is still bafflingly debated is gender inequality in the workplace. There are definitely some instances where it is not as present, but for the most part, it is deeply deeply ingrained in the system. We're not trying to start a political debate in the comments section of this piece, we're just pointing out the obvious. Because the story we found here is a short and sweet one, but one that women know all too well. It all started with an email…

As a professional you want to sound professional, especially in your emails. So when one woman started rising in the ranks of her career, she decided to "take a page out of her male colleague's book" and reframe how she writes her emails. She decided to no longer included exclamation marks, overly friendly terms, and, especially, no emojis—even if its a coworker she's friendly with. She wanted to get it right so badly, that she just straight up copy and pasted a relevant email from her praised male coworker and just re-worded where it was necessary to make it relevant to what she was writing about.

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