AAM: my male colleagues wait for me to set up all our meetings

[green_grrl]

my male colleagues wait for me to set up all our meetings (even meetings I’m not in)

A reader writes:

I am a senior manager at a nonprofit. I am also female. I do not have an assistant.

Increasingly I have noticed that my male colleagues at other organizations or divisions, equal to me in stature (and even people I consider close friends), are deferring to me to schedule meetings for them. Even if it is a meeting the male colleague requested, they will not take the initiative to set up the meeting.

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