Back in April, a team of researchers at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law released a study showing that female justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were interrupted significantly more than their male counterparts.

The interruptions weren't just by their colleagues on the court. Unbelievably, many of the interruptions were from lawyers before the court — a finding so shocking that I didn't even think it was possible. Unfortunately, that study—which was published on the SCOTUSblog, Washington Post and Harvard Business Review, among other websites—didn't spark the kind of discussion I expected it would. Women were horrified but unsurprised. Men were, well, I don't think they paid it much mind.

But the study deserved greater discussion and some action on the part of businesses and institutions who are affected by the interruption phenomenon.