I hear that! I got off the crazy career train a while ago when the news business started caring more about what was "sexy" than they did about facts. My last day in the biz, I pitched a story about a deaf woman who was petitioning to get apartments to update their fire alarms so that they would flash lights and not just make loud noises. The news director told me the story was "boring" and that "deaf people don't make up our demographic" and so he assigned me a more "important" story: The weather. They made me stand on the roof of the studio holding a giant thermometer so I could talk about how hot it was outside and how moving over into the shade would help keep you cool. I walked out the next day and told them all to go to hell

As for men tooting their own horn at work, I noticed that men tended to only put in extra effort when they were trying to get a promotion, but the rest of the time they were lazy butts, while I was consistently working my tail off every day. But guess who usually got promoted? Hint: It was the men. There was also one female manager I had who treated all of her male employees like little princes and was always scolding and demotivating her female employees. The men all flirted with her and she was like a queen bee, basking in their attention. Disgusting! If women do not figure out how to start helping each other at work, instead of stomping all over each other, they are never going to break that glass ceiling you speak of. Men have always had an "old boys club" where they pat each other on the back, help each other out, and give each other promotions, etc. It's high time women did the same thing instead of treating work like some kind of beauty pageant where they need to stab all the other girls in the back.