Women shared the ‘female duties’ sexist men asked them to do despite not being their job – 23 proper shockers

13.

‘I used to work in team with only males and I was the only one ever in charge of my colleagues birthdays (ordering a cake, inviting everyone to the cafeteria, etc.).

‘For one of my birthdays I heard my ex-boss had to ask a “favor” from a female from ANOTHER department (at least he remembered, I guess).’
dinnerwithchopsticks

14.

‘Cleaning up after male associate Supervisor’s, despite the fact I worked in payroll. I processed the payroll for 100 warehouse associates. My boss, told me part of my duties, would be “cleaning up after the Supervisor’s eat lunch at their desk” . Mind you, these men ate taco bell, McDonald’s, etc., everyday. Leaving behind scraps of lettuce, cheese, whatever.

‘And when I objected to the obvious miscalculation of my job description, my boss stated, “because your the women of the office”. GO FUCK YOURSELF.’
Proviacs

15.

‘Friend of mine is automatically assigned to drinks maker when they have meetings, she’s head of marketing …’
white_butterfly1

16.

‘They always look at me to cut up and serve the birthday cakes. Makes my blood boil.’
fullOfhumanBeans

17.

‘I work in an office off of a warehouse. All the warehouse workers are guys. They have their own break room and they let a coffee maker go to shit because they never cleaned it.

‘Recently one guy ask me to make him a cup of coffee. He was a new guy so the coffee maker issue wasn’t his fault. He was also sick. And asked very nicely. And his mom and my mom also happen to be very good friends. So I decided to be nice and make him a cup.

‘For the following week EVERY GUY in the warehouse asked me to make them coffee every morning.

‘Give an inch, they take a mile.’
FuzzyBlanketThrow

18.

‘For potluck team lunch women were expected to cook something and get and men were excused to simply buy drinks, deserts etc. I said no fucking way I am cooking for other men when they are excused. And I said this loudly infront of whole team when all of us were discussing.

‘Immediately men in the team volunteered, simple easy salads, getting some snacks etc. Why was this not a norm before I joined team, no idea. But manager took notice of this and started getting other men to involve in arrangements and clean up etc. Work was not left for all women.

‘Fast forward I have my own company now. And still I have to fight off misogyny so many times. The suppliers, distributors, all talk to my husband as he is the man and many times dont even look at me when I am in same meeting. I dont react really. I let meeting happen and after an hour I simply get up and say thanks for coming but we wont be going ahead working with you. They look at my husband and he just shrugs and say well she is the boss. The look on their face is worth wasting an hour. And if they try to arm wrestle me then they get an earful of how awful they were at the meeting.’
strong-4

19.

‘Organize the holiday parties.’
HolidayControl9

20.

‘I own a business and have two male employees and three female employees. I found out that one of the male employees was leaving his dishes in the sink, and the three female employees were doing them when they did their own. All of them are very young. I flat out told the girls to stop doing the dishes for anyone but themselves and during a staff meeting reminder everyone to wash and dry their own dishes and put them away.

‘The next week my guy leaves dishes in the sink. He’s about to clock out, and I pull him aside and ask if those dishes in the sink are his. He says they are. I look him dead in the eye and ask who he expects is going to wash them if he clocks out and leaves them. He stared at me in silence for a full minute before the realization hits him that he doesn’t actually know. He went and did his dishes and I haven’t had a problem with it since.

‘But damn.’
MuppetManiac

21.

‘I started a new job, desk job in an otherwise all male office, and the boss had the audacity to imply that I’m welcome to use the in-house kitchen to make food for the staff, and how nice it is to have a woman on the team. I walked out.’
schwarzmalerin

22.

‘A man in my office asked me to print and bind a document for him. I said I didn’t know how, he said it’s easy and he can talk me through it, and I said well then it sounds like you don’t need me, doesn’t it.

‘I was 24 at the time I’d never even seen a document binder before then, let alone used one. I didn’t work for him and it wasn’t part of my role. He had a meeting and he wanted binded copies for his team and made a beeline for the only vagina in the office.’
Iforgotmypassword126

23.

‘Ex-military. I had a supervisor that I’m pretty sure hated women. He stopped one of the guys (same rank as me) from cleaning the office and told him he wanted me to do it. He would bring me a notepad and tell me to “jot down his thoughts throughout the day.”

‘He would offer to write packages for any of the guys in the office, but never me (even though I was one of the highest performers.) If I disagreed with anything, I was told by him to just do it because he ranked higher. If any men disagreed, he would hear them out. I hated that guy and his stupid pube face of a beard.’
Buttercup0803

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