Women in tech suffer because of the American myth of meritocracy

The American dream is built on the notion that the US is a meritocracy. Americans believe success in life and business can be earned by anyone willing to put in the hard work necessary to achieve it, or so they say. Thus, Americans commonly believe that those who are successful deserve to be so and those who aren’t are equally deserving of their fate – despite growing evidence that widening inequalities in income, wealth, labor, and gender play a major role in who makes it and who doesn’t. And this very fact – that Americans believe their society is a…

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