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Shannon Ryan: McGuire's condescending treatment of Coyne Schofield is all too familiar for women in male-dominated fields

Imagine boarding a plane and stopping by the cockpit on the way to your seat to advise the pilot: "Now remember: The runway is over here. The sky is up there."

Weird, right?

NHL analyst Pierre McGuire made similarly tone-deaf and out-of-place comments when welcoming Olympic gold medalist Kendall Coyne Schofield to her NBC broadcasting debut Wednesday night, less than a week after she became the first woman to compete in the

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