Episode 40: Kate Brodock: She’s Closing the Gender Gap in Tech - On The Dot Woman

I recently read an eye-opening piece on the website Medium, in which a successful techie gal shared a startling recurring theme in her life. Several times a month, someone tells her she doesn’t look like an engineer. These naysayers have their odd reasons, like how she doesn’t appear “geeky” enough or is “too into fashion” to be exceptionally smart. All I hear is that they’re threatened and jealous. Maybe you’ve had similar encounters in your career, like when your colleague calls you “cute,” or your manager subtly laughs at you instead of with you. Even though these moments can seem minuscule, often going unrecognized by those around us, we hear them, we feel them and sometimes, we start to believe them. Today, shake off the haters, keep your head up and know this world of women has got your back!

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I recently read an eye-opening piece on the website Medium, in which a successful techie gal shared a startling recurring theme in her life. Several times a month, someone tells her she doesn’t look like an engineer. These naysayers have their odd reasons, like how she doesn’t appear “geeky” enough or is “too into fashion” to be exceptionally smart. All I hear is that they’re threatened and jealous. Maybe you’ve had similar encounters in your career, like when your colleague calls you “cute,” or your manager subtly laughs at you instead of with you. Even though these moments can seem minuscule, often going unrecognized by those around us, we hear them, we feel them and sometimes, we start to believe them. Today, shake off the haters, keep your head up and know this world of women has got your back!

The post Kate Brodock: She’s Closing the Gender Gap in Tech appeared first on On The Dot Woman.