How Maxine Waters stood up to Steven Mnuchin | By Peggy Drexler for CNNOpinion
Peggy Drexler is a research psychologist and the author of"Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family" and"Raising Boys Without Men." She is at work on a book about how women are conditioned to compete with one another and what to do about it. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers. View more opinion on CNN.
For anyone not versed in the term -- though few women have been fortunate enough to not experience it themselves -- mansplaining is when a man tries to explain something to a woman, the"slower species," in a condescending or patronizing way. But it's one thing for a woman to experience it in a meeting at work or at a party with some boorish guy spelling things out.
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