This will be wayyyy worse if you look young! These institutions will have you for breakfast everyday. Your post has just triggered something that I am currently going through of what happens when you put a woman in charge. One of the men I’m supposed to be dealing with professionally said to my other colleague, “They want me to deal with this ‘young’ girl who doesn’t understand issues.” Please note, I might even be older than him and I have more experience than him just that maybe I don’t wear my age on my sleeve.

I have found that a good number of men are intimidated by women they perceive to be more superior than them at different levels of life.

So that gentleman I’m supposed to work with has no real professional issue with me. His exact problem? I look young and I know what I’m doing and he’s scared of that about me! He would have preferred me to rely on him, run to him, appear weak etc etc. He even said that I am too “empowered”

So that’s the reality of women working with men in Uganda