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2022 · 4 min read

"Why do ambitious women have flat heads?" by Steve Shirley

It was the title of Dame Stephanie Shirley's 2015 Ted Talk. I watched it for the first time when I was about to begin high school to obtain a baccalaureate degree in science and mathematics. In her talk, she shared the gender inequalities and discrimination she faced in the sixties as a software engineer woman, which motivated her to start her own software company that predominantly hired women. It was Dame Shirley's talk that opened my eyes to what I was getting myself into.

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