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As A Woman Who Worked In Tech For 15 Years, I Can Confidently Say Mark Zuckerberg Is Wrong About Corporate Culture Needing More "Masculine Energy"
If there's one thing the tech industry has enough of, it's "masculine energy."
“Gender stereotyping in the workplace, coupled with unchallenging projects, blatant sexual harassment, and greater isolation from supportive networks, leads many female [engineering] students to revisit their ambitions,” according to the Harvard Business Review. One of the women I worked with closely, who I found to be friendly, approachable, an incredibly skilled engineer, and a crucial source of institutional memory, revealed that she’d attempted to communicate these feelings to her manager. I've sent messages back and forth with other women while misogynistic remarks were made in all-hands meetings and spent weeks creating Visio flowcharts and documentation to prove a point that readily would have been accepted if it had come from one of my male counterparts.
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