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Women Are Not Obligated to Write the Male Perspective
We are also not obligated to defend and explain ours in detail.
I have spent a significant amount of time disqualifying my voice because it is that of a woman. This has never been more apparent to me than in the last four years since I started writing regularly and as a significant part of my career.
You’d think the 22 years I spent in a male-dominated workplace would have created this kind of issue, but it did not. What did was working tooth and nail to try and give voice to an entire army of middle-aged women who feel they have been kept quiet for too long.
Board rooms have been less intimidating to me than hitting a little button that says, “Publish.”
I have done an exceptional amount of work in the last few months to dig down deep, uncover my own worth, and bring it to light. It only took me 48 years to do this. No big.
And yet, no matter what I say, like so many of my fellow writing sisters, there is still an onslaught of disqualifying statements. Mainly, this happens whenever I try to do the work of addressing an issue that women struggle with that really warrants discussion by both genders. Yes, of course, these comments come from men.
