#GAReads | It's Not Just You: In Online Meetings, Many Women Can't Get a Word In

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“It's Not Just You: In Online Meetings, Many Women Can't Get a Word In”:

Last week, Mita Mallick tried to share an opinion during an online meeting but her voice was drowned out.

“I’m interrupted, like, three times and then I try to speak again and then two other people are speaking at the same time interrupting each other,” said Mallick, head of diversity and inclusion at the consumer goods company Unilever.

When she finally did get a word in, she couldn’t gauge anyone’s response. She cracked a joke and couldn’t determine if anyone was laughing. She couldn’t tell if anyone agreed with the points she was trying to make. She just saw blank stares.

She isn’t the only one feeling frustrated with the new reality of plugging into meetings from home.

Read Alisha Haridasani Gupta’s full article at The New York Times here…