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Dear Future Hires,
Yes, we lost an hour of Women’s History Day, but that doesn’t stop us from celebrating the whole month! Through all the barriers and discrimation women have always found their way to the top of the food chain, moving moutains & creating policies.
Happy Women’s History Month
But women in corporate America know these questions all too well:
“Did your looks help you get promoted?”
“Are your hormones getting in the way?”
“How do you stay assertive without being perceived as bitchy?”
For many women, these aren’t shocking. They’re the subtle comments & double standards that follow women into rooms where their credibility should already be unquestioned.
That’s why this video from @femalequotient on Instagram hit so hard. In it they asked men exact same questions women hear constantly. And the reactions? Confusion. Discomfort. Disbelief. A quick, visceral “Why would anyone ask me that?”
Exactly.
When bias is spoken out loud, when it’s directed at someone who’s never had to carry it, it becomes impossible to ignore. What feels absurd to men is simply routine for women.
WATCH IT BELOW ⬇️
What the video revealed
The experiment exposed how deeply gender bias is woven into corporate culture. Women are expected to navigate questions and assumptions that men rarely, if ever, encounter. The video made that visible by showing:
How quickly men recognize a question as inappropriate when it’s directed at them.
How normalized those same questions have become for women.
How often women are forced to justify their competence, authority, and leadership style.
The questions didn’t change, only the audience did. And that shift revealed everything.
My Get Me Hired Kristi Take
Women in leadership aren’t just doing the work. They’re doing the work while being watched, interpreted, and judged through a lens they never asked for.
They’re leading teams while constantly monitoring how their tone might be received.
They’re delivering results while decoding feedback that men in the room will never hear.
They’re navigating assumptions about their ambition, their emotions, their appearance, and their authority before they even get to the actual job.
They’re carrying the weight of representation, knowing their performance is often treated as a verdict on all women, not just themselves.
And still, they rise.
They build high-performing teams.
They shift cultures that weren’t built with them in mind.
They exceed expectations that were set too low to begin with.
They open doors that stay open long after they walk through them.
This video isn’t a critique of women’s leadership. It’s a spotlight on the systems that still haven’t caught up to their excellence. The questions women get asked say nothing about their capability and everything about the bias that still shapes corporate culture.
So to every woman reading this:
Your leadership is earned.
Your presence is power.
Your success is the result of skill, strategy, and resilience NOT luck, NOT looks, and definitely NOT anyone’s permission.
You didn’t get here by accident. You got here because you’re exceptional at what you do. WE ARE EXECPTIONAL AT WHAT WE DO!
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— Kristi
Founder, Career Storyteller, and now… App Creator
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