I'm a special educator, working with children and with only female coworkers. I can't count how many prejudices I've lived through. My colleagues, besides the heavy lifting stuff, are not really the ones doing it.

I think the most disturbing thing is how sometimes, you're being looked at as a male in the presence children. You're the "potential pedophile". One day we had a team training about the problematic of sexual assault at home or at work. When I first talked they laughed a bit. But when I dropped in the room, that I could not take children on my laps or that I'd take care not to get too physical with the children, because I'd seen a lot of disturbed or distrustful looks from people, they were shocked that they'd never thought about it. And because the judging can be subtle, you just have to build a safe behavioural way to interact. Sometimes it's penalising, because the smaller children specially require some contact (for example for safety), but I just have to compensate with other skills.

The most annoying thing is when you have some mothers, who've had a bad experience with men and they just take it out on you. With some long work you can reinstate some trust, but some are just on a warpath. You remember them everything about the men in their lives and you just have live with this sticker. But it's rare.