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While I find the general idea of the text acceptable, I do not agree with the sentiment that somehow if you're a woman in the workplace, you just need to be accepted for what you are and you should be provided with an "immediate transfer of trust in your abilities." My experience is anecdotal and someone else's will, of course, differ, but at our workplace, if you do a good job and you are a team player, you will be accepted. No one, man or woman, somehow has the right to be trusted until proving themselves.



That's not the sentiment she's expressing, though. You generally give people some amount of trust to begin with, right? That's all she's talking about.


I can see your point and you are probably right :) But then again, it depends on the field as well. In any technological field, you would get hired because someone trusts in you. But once you start interacting with your team members, you still have to prove yourself to them.




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