Even given that open-plan offices are disproportionately harmful to women, it's part of an absurd whack-a-mole to enumerate and eradicate the myriad specific ca

Even given that open-plan offices are disproportionately harmful to women, it's part of an absurd whack-a-mole to enumerate and eradicate the myriad specific cases of "women are harmed by being in contact with men" instead of either (a) finding ways to reduce the mistreatment in the large, or (b) calling for segregation. If you put people in individual offices, you'll likely be able to do studies showing "men don't visit women's offices, freezing them out of the informal social hierarchy", or "women feel threatened when men visit their offices to talk to them in private". (The "calling for segregation" bit is interesting because, of course segregating men and women would be sexist too ("Old boys' club"), but if putting men and women together is bad, and segregating men from women is bad, then we need to stop arguing about how to shuffle up the men and women, and instead argue more about how to make men and women get along together.)