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Lindsey Kopacz on March 08, 2019

In the past month alone, here are some of the things I've experienced: Quick Tip for being inclusive to women in tech: if you're teaching HTML/CS...
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Ali Spittel

❤️❤️❤️ thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️

Any time the women in tech put ourselves out there, we are putting ourselves at risk. Especially the brave women who stand up the toxic masculinity.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Lindsey Kopacz

❤️❤️❤️ Your post inspired me so much to be brave and post this. I almost wasn't going to.

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Fernando Borba

It is shaming how we (men) try to be superior in everything, is not about knowledge, it is about domination, a stupid domination. Your efforts to teach something aways being contested, it is so unfair. Women making a real effort to teach and spread knowledge, men making a show to exhibit (doubtful) knowledge, the main difference of who wants others to grow e who wanna applause.

Thank you for sharing your power, strong and great actions to deal with this!

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Conlin Durbin • Edited

Not the point of this post at all, but I am super glad I made the "good example" category. Thanks for sharing your story! I especially loved this part:

Actually, care about women, invest in inclusion efforts instead of just tokenizing them and asking them to speak at your event. Have a CoC for their conferences, Slack groups, and events.

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Lindsey Kopacz

Yeah, I actually confused someone on Twitter because he thought I was offended by what you said and I was like no no, that's not what was bad. It was the dude's response to that.

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Conlin Durbin

I saw that! It was an odd interaction :/

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Lindsey Kopacz

I think he just got confused, it's all good!

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Juan F Gonzalez

Just want to bring my full encouragement so you can keep building things, helping others and making an impact on this industry. Being self-taught is a huge merit on itself and I know that skill will keep on getting further developed. So yeah congrats and keep it up :)

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Lindsey Kopacz

Thanks, Juan! I'm very proud of how far I've come!

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boris kan

In my career, I have had more women given me more opportunities to learn and grow. The ratio has been 7:3 if not more. To a point, when I look for an opportunity, the make up of the team was more important than the salary.

Thanks for sharing.