Chauvanism

[Eve]

Do any of you other ladies come across this?

I'm not much of a feminist but it irks me in my job when assumptions are made mostly because you're female.

People who know me or who I do work for aren't a problem but i find it amazing these days how people assume I'm a secretary when I pick up the phone because i'm female. Although when they ask "are you so and so's secretary" and I reply very calmly "no i'm a solicitor" the embarassed silence is kinda amusing.

At my last place, when i started a large number of people in another department assumed I was the new secretary an even worse for a guy of the same age who I was on an equal standing to.

I worked with him and another guy and we went to a wedding reception for a client together. On being introduced to the groom he greeted the two guys then asked which one I was with.

I know it doesn't help that I look a lot younger than I am and I've nothing against secretaries I used to be one and have a fantastic one myself as I used to be one but it is still annoying.

Do you other girls find this?

[noxlumos]

My wife reproduces, however you'd be a brave man to try her cooking:(

[snagged]

LMFAO nox!...