💻 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 erasure,
we risk building tech that reflects the very biases we’re trying to dismantle.

• AI that misreads neurodivergent users.

• Platforms that reward performative productivity over real impact.

• Workplaces that mistake silence for weakness.

Women in deep tech are not just contributors.
We’re architects.

And if we don’t build systems that listen,
They’ll keep silencing us.

💡 What We Can Do

1. Build with empathy.
   Design platforms that validate emotional nuance — not flatten it.

2. Speak the unspoken.
   Share your story. Your burnout. Your brilliance. Your boundaries.

3. Mentor with honesty.
   Tell the next generation what you wish someone had told you:
   that emotional intelligence is technical.

4. Challenge the metrics.
   Redefine what success looks like —
   not just output, but impact.
   Not just speed, but sustainability.

💬 Reflective Prompt: What Did You Mask?

Think of a moment when you masked your emotion to stay “professional.”
What did it cost you?
What would you say now, if you could rewrite that moment?

Write it.
Share it.
Let it be part of the new blueprint.

💬 Final Thought

We don’t need to be louder.
We need to be heard.
We need to be trusted.
We need to be in the room — not just as users, but as creators.

TechSheThink isn’t just a platform.
It’s a signal — for every woman who’s ever been misread, underestimated,
or emotionally edited out of the story.

Let’s rewrite it. Together.

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