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Why Women Leave Tech The Microaggression Tax
Women leave the tech industry at a 45 percent higher rate than men, and new research pins much of the blame on a cumulative burden called the 'microaggression tax.' In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack a landmark study from the Kapor Center that tracked 1,200 women engineers over three years. They zero in on one specific finding: women who experienced at least five microaggressions per month were 3.2 times more likely to quit within the year, even after controlling for salary, role, and company culture. Lucas walks through the data on four common microaggression types—interruption, credit…
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