Male Privilege

What I learned from listening to women

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Over the years, I began to keep track of whenever I heard a woman talk about something she felt she had to do that had never occurred to me to do. It took me until my 40s to identify these disparities as a function of my male privilege. Why did it take me so long? Because one characteristic of privilege is that you can get away with not knowing you have it. It’s the people…