“It was just so brash, so argumentative and competitive, with people fighting to the end on every point,” she writes. With other women employees, they began to create oases in Microsoft where courtesy was not seen as a sign of weakness. A critical mass of women employees helped civilize the company. “We both got angry,” Melinda writes, adding: “I thought we were going to kill each other. I felt, ‘Well, this just might end the marriage right here.’”In the end, Bill wrote the letter for 2013 but included a section by Melinda.

Source: New York Times April 24, 2019 23:15 UTC