Will I be screwed?

So for my summer internship this summer, I was assigned a female manager who, besides managing me, is also managing 7 other interns (all of whom are girls). I'm not trying to be sexist or anything but I don't think that I have a lot of things in common with my manager to talk about and that the other female interns will just click more naturally with the manager. 


Given that it is likely that not everyone in my group will be getting a return offer, am I basically screwed and my manager will essentially just give out return offers to all the female interns (due to natural bias/more commonality with the female interns)? 


I know this is a strange question but I think it's just weird that every intern on my team, staffer, my manager are all female. 

 
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Well, first take this as a learning experience. As a woman, I’ve been on some teams where everyone is male and it’s hard to make the extra effort to relate and be likable. You aren’t by any means screwed, but you do have to make that extra effort which women and other minorities in this space have always had to do. Try and find common ground with your manager and make sure you’re just as much a part of the intern team as the other interns, even if it may mean having some conversations about things that aren’t super interesting to you!

 

monkilovesbanana

Well, first take this as a learning experience. As a woman, I've been on some teams where everyone is male and it's hard to make the extra effort to relate and be likable. You aren't by any means screwed, but you do have to make that extra effort which women and other minorities in this space have always had to do. Try and find common ground with your manager and make sure you're just as much a part of the intern team as the other interns, even if it may mean having some conversations about things that aren't super interesting to you!

After working 15 years in the corporate world (2 consulting firms; 3 industry), I can say that I 100% disagree with you about females and minorities put in any sort of extra effort in corporate settings.

Companies roll out the red carpet for women and minorities. You are very wrong.

 

As a minority on Wall Street, sure they “roll out the red carpet” in recruiting, but when Brad from Harvard as talking about his parents second house in the Hamptons and about finals clubs when he was an intern, do you think that was a relatable experience for the 6 minority interns in our class?

Given how banking and finance skew towards kids of high-income families, the hobbies and life experiences of a lot of my colleagues are quite dissimilar to mine. It can be quite difficult in social settings to bridge the enormous socioeconomic gaps implied in the comment that minorities have to put in extra effort at work to relate to others.

 

@john stone 

Your comprehension skills must be sub-zero my guy.

1. Sure - if you want to highlight the emphasis on female and minority recruitment, that would be an understandable point. Regardless of stance, to state that it is objectively a priority for most companies would be an un-biased statement. I could see your point there, but this was not the approach you made.

2.  You missed the entire point monkilovesbanana loves banana is making. Getting into a company is step one, but connecting with and establishing meaningful relationships is COMPLETELY different. This is the point where minorities and women absolutely have to work 2x as hard, as it is a field objectively still dominated by white men. Everyone on this site bitches and moans about diversity recruiting and prioritization of female hiring, but show me one investment bank where the bull pen isnt predominantly white men. ONE OFFICE FOR ONE INVESTMENT BANK that has a name we all know and recognize. As someone who has worked at 2 IBs, 2 consulting firms, 2 corp dev teams, women and minorities have almost always been few and far between, that is just M&A. 

3. So when you state that companies "roll out the red carpet for minorities and women", please tell me how that is true when it comes to minority and female integration and assimilation. EVERY time (speaking broadly of course), the women and minorities who made strong connections went out of their way to connect with their teams, and it was certainly less organic than those who were white men. Creating these relationships is an uphill battle to an extent because white men just tend to gravitate toward one another (I am guilty of this too sometimes). 

4. Back to OPs point, yes he will have to make a serious effort to connect with his all-female team. In my experiences working with women in both banking and consulting, they have been great. Yes, some are the daughters of MDs or got the job through connections and dont work hard at all, but I have worked for the same % of Chads who are the same way. At the beginning you just treat it like any new person you meet, ask them about themselves, their weekends, fav TV shows, it really isnt that hard. When working as an IBD intern I had one female associate who would often go to bat for me and get me out of the office early on Fridays by "checking" with the analysts I was working for on the urgency of the work I was doing, and proving that it could usually wait until Monday or at least next day. Sure this is a one-off, atypical scenario, but the point remains that if you put in the effort to establish meaningful relations with these women, you can create a tight bond and not be the "odd man out". 

 

I’ve been on a team with all women except myself and was hired onto the team by our female manager. It’s 2022, don’t worry about it and do good work. Some of the best managers I’ve had have been women.

 

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