Luckyshirt

null: Prove it.

Reading Faruk Ates’s Primer on Sexism in the Tech Industry has led me on a sort of odyssey of feminist exploration. This is awesome, but there is one point in the article that I just can’t shake: women are leaving STEM careers. As a study by Harvard Business Review stated, “more than half of all…

I was just having this conversation a few days a go with a friend, and talking about how little I once knew about any of this.

My mother raised me on her own for a bit, then married a horrible person, and was the sole earner in my family. She was the VP of her large commercial real estate firm, and had an office full of awards. Which to a kid just meant “my mom is awesome at important things.”

I was raised by her to respect all people, and never thought about sexism or these issues. I just didn’t even know it was happening. Because it wasn’t happening in my adolescent eyes to the only woman in my life.

Now I know better. And I have the opportunity to raise one woman and one man to respect everyone as I did. It’s not much in terms of the universe or planet, but I hope it will mean very much to them.