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Men in associations

I was seriously sick last night and I was doing the insomniac-in-front-of-the-monitor thing when I read this article in the Washington Post. Dr. Helen (the InstaWife of great renown) has a write-up of the article on her blog. This is a point she brings up fairly regularly, including this horrifying policy she brought up. So, does this have an application in the association world? Now, I'm no wannabe victim, but I sometimes think that I'm very much in a female-dominated profession; and I have had some negative experiences that had me scratching my head figuring out whether the issue was really about gender. Of course, I only experience what I experience, but would be open to convo about it.

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