💻 We Live in the Age of Emotional Misinformation TechSheThink | Empowering Women in Deep Tech | Warning of Inaction
There’s a glitch in the system — and it’s not just technical. It’s emotional. We live in an age where Gen Z de-stresses with baby pacifiers. Where scientists confirm parental favouritism. Where women with ADHD are told they’re just lazy. This isn’t just cultural noise. It’s emotional misinformation. And it’s costing women in tech more than we realise. 🧠 When Feelings Are Filtered Out In deep tech, we’re trained to optimise, automate, and abstract. But somewhere along the way, we started filtering out the human signal — the burnout, the bias, the brilliance that doesn’t shout. Women are still being told to “toughen up” in rooms they built. Still being overlooked for promotions because they “don’t speak up enough.” Still being gaslit by systems that weren’t designed with them in mind. And if you’ve ever felt like you had to code your emotions out of your CV , you’re not imagining it — You’re surviving it. ⚠️ Warning of Inaction If we don’t challenge this emotional erasu...