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Why Women in Tech Don’t Support Each Other

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Sorority in tech is a legend. And we all know it.

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AI Isn’t Taking Entry-Level Jobs. Companies Are Cutting Them and Blaming AI

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You’re watching AI close the tickets that were supposed to be yours.

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Her Edge: Your Reputation Is Already Choosing Opportunities for You

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  • Code Like A Girl

    This is the place women in tech come to be seen, to be heard, to be championed, and to say the things they can't say anywhere else. We'd love for you to join us for three stories a week from 70+ women who've lived it.

  • Valentina

    I’m a product manager from Chișinău. One publication is about perfume. The other is about work. Both are mostly about people making questionable decisions and then finding excellent language to explain them.

  • Neela \ud83c\udf36️

    The gurus have a funnel for everything except the truth. Essays for people who are tired of being optimized, automated, disrupted, conditioned, and otherwise improved.

  • Christine Miao

    Christine is the creator of technical accounting, an accounting method that surfaces engineering health. It turns massive initiatives - like breaking up monoliths or cleaning up tech debt - into reports anyone can understand.

  • The Reluctant Graduate \ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffe‍\ud83c\udf93

    thinking about everything | ai and tech and society and culture from the outside in.

  • Julie Tonna

    ex-Apple. Growth for apps & games ✨

  • Emanuela B

    I help people turn pivotal points into intentional trajectories. Intercultural coach & PhD. 20+ years across borders \ud83c\udf0d

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    \ud83d\udc81\ud83c\udffb‍♀️ Product Data Scientist obsessed with turning ambiguous questions into decisions. Writing about AI, analytics, and the career moves they don't teach you in school.

  • Cheyenne Dominguez | M(AI)VENS

    Founder of M(AI)VENS: The newsletter + community for non-techy women exploring AI together. Weekly insights, book club meetups, prompt parties, and intentional networking. As seen in The Hustle and Substack's Top 100.

  • Dinah

    I helped build the tech world for 20 years. Now I write about staying human inside it: burnout and recovery, boundaries with our devices, raising a teen, and the small joys that make a life. For anyone wondering if the life they built still fits.

  • Karo (Product with Attitude)

    AI PM turning everyone into critical AI thinkers & builders. A community developing critical AI literacy through practice. Use AI to strengthen the branch you’re sitting on, not cut it off.

  • Sovereign Insight Strategies

    AI doesn’t fail in the model. It fails in the Human Risk Layer™. I analyze how human systems become the limiting risk factor as tech scales across energy, supply chains, and workforce operations. I identify hidden risks before they surface.

  • Kriti Agarwal

    Where your demo app learns to be a real product. Dev @Sakana AI, Tokyo \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5

  • Dr. Nicole Ohebshalom

    Therapist to high profile individuals and couples in Silicon Valley. Authored Journals (coming soon): It Begins With You, Daily Pause, and We Grow Each Other. PhD in sexuality. Women's health advisor. Meditator.

  • Alex Van Holtz

    Software engineer, mom, clinical mental health counseling grad student, occasional boxer. I write about burnout, work dysfunction, and the slow, humbling work of figuring out who you are. My life in tech keeps providing excellent research material.

  • Rebecca Sutter

    I bring forty years of building resilient systems - first in technology, now in therapy. Whether debugging code or untangling thought patterns, I apply the same approach: listen carefully, identify root causes, and build sustainable solutions

  • Ankita Chatrath

    Senior AI PM at the crossroads of Enterprise Enablement, Data, AI and Product Strategy. Real lessons from shipping AI in large orgs—for PMs and Data Leaders who want impact over hype.

  • Alicja Bialek

    Essays on the burnout you didn't cause and the workplace relationships that did. Written by a former IT manager turned burnout coach on a mission to build work cultures where success doesn't require burnout.

  • Lucy Watson

    Founder of Negotiate Like a Woman. Fix the women' got us nowhere. 'Fix the system' is taking forever. Negotiation strategist for women leaders, on value, power and authority.

  • Kelsey Helstrom

    I'm a data analyst who spends her days deep in Excel and AI tools. Every week, one article. Practical, not theoretical. For women in data and finance who are already great at their jobs and just want to stay that way — and then some.

  • Anna Wojciechowska

    Woman in tech figuring out AI by doing it - and watching how everyone else does it too. I write about what I learn, what I notice, and what nobody's saying out loud. Weekly from Copenhagen.

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