Welcome to the part 1 of Promotion Playbook Series for Smart Women in Male-Dominated Industries. If you’ve ever felt like you’re working twice as hard for half the recognition, you’re not alone.
In male-dominated fields like tech, finance, and engineering, women face two sets of barriers: the external ones — sexism, racism, bias — and the internal ones we often don’t even notice until someone points them out. Things like:
- Tiara Syndrome: believing if you keep your head down and do good work, a crown will magically fall on your head.
- Comfort Fallacy: scanning the room to keep everyone else happy and comfortable, at the expense of your own voice.
- Perfectionist Fantasy: setting rigid, impossible standards that make it nearly impossible to try something new.
I see these myths come up again and again in my 10 years of coaching practice. They’re powerful — but they’re also lies.
And the good news? Once you spot them, you can dismantle them.
In my recent workshop, I shared practical, repeatable tools for overcoming these blind spots and moving your career forward — even if you’re the only woman in the room.
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