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That is just an empty claim, though. Is there any indication at all that it is the case?

Maybe some women CEOs feel they are not being taken serious because they are women. But if CEOs in general are not being taken serious until they are successful, how do those women determine that being a woman is the extra reason they are not being taken serious? And how did they get to be CEO in the first place? Somebody has to have believed in them?

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People still often directly vocalize their sexism as such. Stating things like 'Its a good idea for a woman'. They probably don't often do it to the person who they are offending face but I have heard it about others and forwarded onto them in the past.

When people you trust inform you that the someone dismissed you for being a woman, then you can know pretty safely. You can keep defending your stance, although at this point I am dismissing you as a probable troll.

I'm sure people who dismiss women exist. But are they significant? People are being dismissed for all sorts of things. Wrong age, wrong taste, wrong education, wrong school, wrong accent, wrong religion and so on and so on. The question is always, are the jerks a significant enough fraction to have an impact. Women are the majority of the population, so they should have a sufficient supply of business partners. Even if all men would say they don't want to work with women, there would still be several billion women to do business with.

I'm a man, and I don't automatically get every job I apply for. I wonder why that is?

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