unassertive

I would describe it as unassertive and trying to present things as multifaceted even when they are not.

Being an introvert is separate from being weak/quiet/unassertive.

You'd rather work for some unassertive, passive-aggressive guy who lets employees betray his trust and just turns the other cheek?

The unassertive language also clues the reader of potential knowledge gaps in the reporter.

Is it possible US immigration inadvertently selects for unassertive East Asians?

If anything, I'd say it's more that he didn't want to be the subordinate of an unassertive young person (ageism), not a female.

With regards to the first question: I think it has something to do with the stereotype/expectation that women will be demure or unassertive.

At the same time, if you are really as timid and as unassertive as this article suggests, it will probably have a negative impact on your career.

But any unassertive person has these problems.

Elegance is usually an unassertive quality.

The place I work, the CTO (a non-coder for quite some time) gets it when it comes to being unassertive, taking all the blame, and none of the credit.

(Sure, not totally unassertive, but enough less assertive than the norm to actually matter.) It remains to be seen where we land after Trump.

Bottling up those issues and being unassertive and endlessly constructing "what-if" scenarios before or after the fact, exacerbates the problem.

The fact that Google's founders have, until lately anyway, been unassertive in the manner of Microsoft, does not indicate that Bill Gates' approach "is not worth much".

In fact, in my anecdotal experience (and I very much realise this does not data make), most of the intelligent and conversationally active women I know seem to end up "dating down", very often with less educated, or in rarer cases comparably educated but otherwise rather introverted, laconic and unassertive guys, despite their stated preference to the contrary.

Coy, evasive responses like Alexa’s “Let’s change the topic” in response to “You are a slut” or Cortana’s “I don’t think I can help you with that” in response to “Suck my dick” reinforce stereotypes of unassertive, subservient women in service positions.