I just read Mary Beard’s Women & Power and – ouch…

Beard traces the silencing and neglect of female voices from classical antiquity to today’s meeting rooms: She’s seamlessly able to link Ms Triggs (see cartoon below) to Telemachus’ shushing of his mother, Penolepe, in Homer’s Odyssey. Misogyny, it appears, goes way back.

Let’s make sure we don’t perpetuate this in our meeting rooms. The NYT piece by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on speaking while female offers a couple of examples for changes in meeting culture that could help.