Gender stereotypes lead to punishing women employees if they speak assertively in ways that are treated as acceptable for men.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider important and that I don't know another reference for. That article is one of the exceptions.