Today I just realized WHY exactly the whole "lean in" discourse for women's careers causes such a negative reaction in me.
Telling women that they have to change their behaviour (things like 'be more assertive') so they don't get exploited at work sounds a lot like 'dress modestly at night'. It puts the burden on women to just adapt to a shitty situation.
This has been stuck on my head since the @womeninlanguage tech panel, which went great btw! I'm so happy with the conference overall. Still catching up on some more talks today 💪
I have been aware that it's a type of advice that can backfire, is not necessarily useful, and doesn't fix the big picture. But why I get the angry visceral feeling that it is *wrong* is something that just clicked.
Ex-president Lula's condemnation was annulled yesterday, which means he regained full political rights. Today he made a speech. This is a pivotal moment in Brazilian history.
I find hard to explain to people in Europe what the regaining of hope in Brazil means to me. When I left Brazil in 2014, I had a full study abroad scholarship paid by the federal government of Dilma Roussef to invest in my education.
My dad is a taxi driver working 10-12hrs daily and my mom was a primary school teacher who became a housewife after many years of unemployment. An exchange program in Europe was absolutely not something I would ever even have dreamed of.
Momento histórico, discurso do Lula ao vivo, após recuperar direitos eleitorais:
Emocionante esse homem, uma pessoa q trás sobretudo esperança.
Olha, eu queria muito uma nova esquerda no Brasil e um dos meus maiores problemas com o PT foi não ter garantido a renovação política e não ter se preocupado com um legado estável e a substituição da figura do Lula.
What baffles me is that English has a direct equivalent for this, called singular they. It's not like it even needs to take biased probabilistic data as a fallback when the algorithm isn't confident about what to do.
As soon as they added Finnish<->English translation, or any other combination of gendered and non-gendenred pronouns, they KNEW this would occur. It's a very basic knowledge for this type of product, so there's no way this is unnoticed. And still nothing has been done about it.
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Less than 3% of business funds go to women in the US and I don't even know for Brazil, where I'm from or UK, where I'm now, but it's probably similarly low. I can't speak for all women, but as someone who is not after VC money, I have a huntch on why techcrunch.com/2019/12/09/us-…
Despite the fact that women-led businesses tend to outperform other businesses in profitability, I think the reason why most women start a business is different than why men start a business. This isn't just because of gender, but also wealth forbes.com/sites/falonfat…