Boooo!
My just-retired wife worked her her way up the corporate ladder in the software industry (serving two corporate mergers and several massive layoffs along the way) by working longer, harder and smarter than almost all of her male counterparts.
It would have been impossible for her to do so if her male counterparts had been allowed to opt out of dealing with her on a one-to-one basis. Just. Simply. Impossible.
I’m sorry, because this is going to offend a lot of people.
But when I read about a man who refuses to work with women on a one-to-one to one basis unless that are chaperoned, I wonder if I’m living in the US, or Saudi Arabia.