“I appreciate there are people like Marissa Mayer who are able to make it where they are in the industry, but she’s the exception,” said Ashe Dryden, a programmer and consultant on diversity in technology.
“It’s a thousand tiny paper cuts,” is how Ashe Dryden, a programmer who now consults on increasing diversity in technology, described working in tech. “I’ve been a programmer for 13 years, and I’ve always been one of the only women and queer people in the room.
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