What should I make of a colleague refusing to take my name?
Hello to all. I need some perspective. I am a woman of color in a relatively male dominated organization. I am in management and have consistently been told that I am easy to talk to. I am the lead on an important priority and have received compliments on how I have managed to kept the project on track this far. The project involves stakeholders from multiple functional areas. With a recent departure I am
now the only woman on this project. I speak EN as a second language. All is well but there is an important stakeholder who refuses to take my name no matter what. He acknowledges everyone else by their names both in writing and when in meetings. I have consistently noticed this and have always told myself to not overthink it but yesterday I was raising a question at the meeting as I needed to provide clear drafting instructions and they said to me ‘they will use their brain when drafting the documents’. They also behave as if my questions are not important - I am fairly confident most are. Please share perspectives. Would you say anything? Would you ignore? My natural inclination is to try and ignore, but love to hear from you. Thank you!