How To Assert Yourself As A Woman In Tech
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It’s tough to be a woman in the male-dominated tech world.As a female front-end developer for over a decade, I often hear feedback from #women who are told they aren’t able to do the job as well as men. That they’re too emotional, and incapable of understanding the more technical concepts — the code or the #technology.This narrative is completely false. But it’s one that women themselves take on as a self-fulfilling prophecy: because they’re treated so poorly, they think they must be less worthy.It breaks my heart when extremely smart, talented women say they don’t feel heard or respected by men in their industry.Unfortunately, the stats reinforce this gender inequality. In 2017, female founders of all-women teams received just 2% of all venture capital dollars. And most firms don’t even report (...)