I do get that a lot working with the military. Certain people will argue with me non stop trying to get their way. Even when I show them in black and white the regulations. My male co-worker doesn't get that as much.

In fact, just today, he had to tell one of our customers no about something. I told him to hold onto his seat because this guy complains about every thing. Nope, the guy simply asked for instructions on how to proceed a different way. He has never done that with me. It's always a fight. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Yes, work with other cultures who assume the decades younger male is my superior. Ugh

Yes, work with other cultures who assume the decades younger male is my superior. Ugh

I do marketing for people in a male dominated industry, and i'm quite a bit younger than a lot of my clients. For the most part, they respect me and my guidance because they're paying for it. I've had a few clients who seemed to have the idea that a young women couldn't possibly know what they need to do to better market their company, but I just push through and keep speaking with confidence until I get them results, then they stop doubting me lol.

There's been one or two that I had to straight up pass over to a male coworker because I just knew the reason it wasn't working was because they weren't comfortable taking direction from me.

Ugggg, I was just talking about this.

I work in accounting. At my last job when the receptionist took her 2 weeks vacation upper management wanted all the "girls" in the office to take a shift at the reception desk.
I was okay with it at first but got angry as I realized that it was only the women in the office being asked to do it.

There were 3 young men who were making less than me, working on less important time sensitive accounts who were not expected to take a turn at reception.

I went to my boss and said I would do it if I HAD to but, did they really want to pay me to sit out there and basically do nothing for an afternoon? I had some coding that could be done but I couldn't do any data entry or reconciliations away from my desk.
It would make way more sense to have one of the lower paid "boys" out there.

In the end, we forwarded the phones to our desks and put a bell on the reception desk in case anyone walked in. Seems the owner didn't think that anyone would take us seriously if a male voice answered the phone?!
I admit, I was kind of passive aggressive and if I was in the middle of something I let the phones go to the auto attendant.

Good on you for putting him in his place. I cant stand rude people who make stupid assumptions.

Most people assume from my title / name that I must be a man. When I was a younger I also got a bit of "age discrimination" from both older and younger people. These days I can't be bothered anymore. (Benefit of age and dealing with "repeat customers".

Mansplaining. Men getting (or taking) credit for a woman's idea. Getting talked over/ignored in a meeting.

This happens less to me as I've gotten older, but it still happens.

Recent experience though: I was leaving a meeting in an academic building, in a unit that is almost entirely male. A male student was looking for a particular faculty member. He stopped me in the hall and said he was looking for Dr. X because he had to give him some paperwork, and he held out the paperwork like I was going to take it. I had just come out of a meeting with Dr. X, so I knew where he was at that very moment, and I pointed the student in that direction. But not good enough. I was OBVIOUSLY the secretary, and I just needed to take his damn papers so he could be on his way. Not happening, dude. The guy was maybe 20 -- so I don't think a generational change will automatically take care of the gender/race/culture assumptions people make.

Several years ago I was buying a car. My car. My money. We were about to do the deal and the young, male salesman asked me if I had my husband's permission to buy the car. This was in a wildly liberal town. My jaw hit the floor. My feet also walked out the door.

I work in Electric Engineering. In June my female coworker and I both got qualified for the "Win Dad a hooker contest." It was a fishing prize. We both were given a yeti tumbler when we didn't win the big fishing trip prize. One of our male coworkers takes out a five dollar bill and tries to imply we didn't win a prostitution contest

First job I was the receptionist and my counterpart was the "mailroom guy". I was literally told that he got a bigger raise that year because he had a family and I didn't.

I am fairly certain at other times I didn't get promotions in the most timely manner or that my junior coworkers were perceived as my superiors.

I honestly can usually tell when it happens and I probably have my own passive aggressive ways of evening the score. lol.