When I started in tech, I feared being the stereotypical woman in the room forced to take notes for the group, so I avoided it. But as I advanced in my career I realized that agenda setting and note-taking were what turned meetings into decision-making sessions and not just group rants.
Tressie McMillan CottomI like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them