Sitima Fowler had been co-CEO of Capstone Information Technologies for roughly two years when she learned she couldn’t make the first sales call on a client. Instead, Mike Fowler, her husband and co-CEO, saw the head of the undisclosed company. Mike, at that time, was the Capstone brand.
“When he got there, the CEO said, ‘Thank goodness it’s you. I thought some girl I couldn’t even pronounce her name was going to show up,’” Sitima recalls. That happened around 2008.
Women in technology firms have long complained of unfair, illegal or abusive treatment at the hands of their superiors and colleagues, and recent research supports their claims.
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