How to help a female colleague without beeing a jerk?
I work with a female colleague in a difficult tech environment. We are the only two people in our non-technical field. We have to collaborate a lot with engineers and managers who have technical backgrounds. I don't have a technical background myself, but I'm very interested in technology. Even after many years at the company, my colleague struggles to integrate into the environment. She isn't exactly flexible when it comes to tasks, she's bossy toward others, and she sticks so strictly to our process that she leaves very little room for deviation. When other colleagues (mostly men) try to explain something to her, she always sees it as mansplaining and her behavior toward those colleagues becomes aggressive. She once yelled at a manager at the top of her lungs in front of others during a meeting. She's also bad at networking with other colleagues. Sometimes it's hard for me to work with her because she tells me how terrible all these male egos are and that she's treated poorly by everyone because she's a woman. I always try not to engage further when that happens. Honestly, I don't really see it as my problem. When we have these conversations, I always try to tell her how I handle such situations—that I try to go with the flow and defer to the majority opinion to keep the peace. I'd say we're a progressive company. We have a relatively high percentage of women and a female CEO. I'm just tired of having to deal with her hostilities and want to focus on my own work.