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As a fellow woman in tech, this really resonated with my - especially your description of the infantalization of technical women.

My DH is also an engineer, and now in a position to do a lot of hiring.  He's been absolutely aghast at some of the comments he gets from people after interviews.  His coworkers literally saying "she's smart and can do the job, but we're really technical in this group, so I don't think she'd want to"
WTF.[/quote]

Agree with you both. I also wish I knew you in real life!! There are days I feel like I am beating my head against a brick wall.[/quote]
10:26 here. We could set up a tech women community...I'm not sure there are any right now that exist independent of an employer that is trying to build one for the women in their company.

Also, if you've never been, you should try to attend the Grace Hopper Conference. It's amazing to attend a conference of that size that's almost all women.[/quote]

NP. here's a list of a few women in tech communities: https://www.womentechmakers.com/communities

Active communities I'm a part of include techladymafia, systers, net-grrls

Grace Hopper is a truly amazing experience, but I admit to wanting to throw things when Sandberg stood in front of thousands of women and said that the best thing for their career, if they could lean that way, would be to get a wife. Because "person who offloads all of the day to day management of household shit for the primary wage earner" can apparently only be "wife".
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