Today, minority women are working in every industry imaginable. They have taken on roles of tank mechanics to aircraft technicians, and so on. They are doing jobs that women, a generation or two ago, could only have dreamt of. But, still, the number of minority women in STEM remains distressingly low. Minority women (or women in general) do not study STEM and take on these roles only to leave when they expect to thrive and move up the career ladder. They do not resign willingly, but years of abusive workplace conditioning drive them out the door.
Minority women are marginalized and ignored. They are expected to conform to white culture in the technology sector. They are present but invisible, speaking but being unheard of. They are expected to tolerate the male arrogance of assuming that they should be subordinates and must come to learn from them because they know better.
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