#8 “A male friend IMs me ‘is it bad that I want to tweet sexist things with the GHC hashtag?’”

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“It's ten years ago. It's the time of the Grace Hopper Celebration. A male friend IMs me "is it bad that I want to tweet sexist things with the GHC hashtag?". I don't call him out on it.

He's now a Principal Engineer on a team of 100+ with no senior female engineers.”

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#9 “… to which one of my teammates who was listening, quickly interjected to say ‘but it is also true that men work harder as you go up the ladder’”

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#7 “It seems that following process is more important than women feeling safe, and the success of his product is more important than the culture he creates in his team.”