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8 obstacles women still face when seeking a leadership role in IT

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If you are a tech leader, you might encourage your daughter to follow your path, imagining a journey, like yours, with challenges that can be overcome with hard work. But if you are a man — especially a white man — you are likely unaware of the massive obstacles she will face that you didn’t. For women, the path to leadership is littered with obstructions that hard work can’t overcome. Those obstacles start at the first rung of the ladder. Women…

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