In workplaces around the world, women are made to feel that we aren’t good enough or smart enough. Women get paid less than men do. Women of color get paid even less. We get raises and promotions more slowly than men do. We don’t get trained and mentored and sponsored for jobs as much as men do. And we get isolated from one another more than men do—so it can take women a long time to realize that the bad fit we’re feeling is not our fault but a fact of the culture.
