meghan-maternie

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by meghan-maternie 8y ago
I'm not surprised you don't think you've seen any evidence...because women AREN'T AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF BUSINESS IN ANYWHERE NEAR A NUMBER THAT IS REPRESENTATIONAL OF THE POPULATION!!!!! This is like Trump saying clim
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by meghan-maternie 8y ago
Some data for you: 100 years ago, I couldn't vote in the United States. 50 years ago, my best shot at not living in poverty would've been marrying well. 25 years ago, starting and running a company would've been preposterous.
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by meghan-maternie 8y ago
p.s. I'm glad we agree about that experiment
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by meghan-maternie 8y ago
In a perfect world people would succeed based on merits and not identity, their parents, how much money they have growing up, etc. We do not live in that world. We have clear structural challenges to having women succeed at the highest leve
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by meghan-maternie 8y ago
Yeah you know what is not a great body of objective evidence? 40 years of women being told we have an equal chance of success at anything we want to do, and yet, in October 2017 discovering that actually the vast majority of us have encount
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by meghan-maternie 8y ago
Okay how about this needmoretea: Close your eyes. Now imagine every male coworker you have is actually female. They are used to only working with mostly women, so you are an oddity. Kind of entertaining. They just hope you can be cool and b
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by meghan-maternie 8y ago
To all the men saying/thinking “hey this isn’t equal and maybe women just aren’t as good at tech,” I invite you on a journey with me back to my first basketball game in the 4th grade. I had seen sports my whole life but had never playe