Hello! I am actually a woman but would like advice from men. I am a young girl that recently got promoted at work to a leadership position. Of course i am extremely happy and grateful, but i am not naive. I work at a very male dominated field and the vast majority of my colleagues are men. By the way, most of them are older than me. The fact that I am younger than most of the people i will be giving orders to already worries me that they won’t take me seriously, but being a young girl makes it even more worrying for me. As I said, I am not naive, and I know a lot of people don’t like to have someone younger as their boss and I also know that most men don’t like having a woman boss. I am scared my male colleagues won’t like having to be supervised by a woman, the genre that they view as the inferior one. I am just scared they won’t see me as someone worthy of being in that position. Please, don’t get me wrong: J am not trying to victimize myself. I am just trying to protect myself. I know that I was chosen for this position because i am capable, otherwise my boss would’ve chosen someone else, but I know the world we live in. I will do my job as normally and won’t be victimizing myself and won’t be trying to force angry feminism down anyone’s throats at work. I just would like tips on how to be respected and seen as equal, on how to make my gender something irrelevant for them. How can I make them see me as a colleague and not a woman colleague, that’s all. submitted by /u/menidk
Originally posted by u/menidk on r/AskMen