Can we cure imposter syndrome in tech?

Anyone can suffer from feeling like you aren’t qualified to be somewhere – also known as ‘imposter syndrome’ – but in the chronically gender-imbalanced technology industry, it typically rears its head for women.

Now, a debate is raging: Is imposter syndrome simply an attitude that women need to unlearn by ‘leaning in’ to leadership roles, or the inevitable byproduct of gender bias in the workplace?

What is imposter syndrome and can it be tamed?

In recent years, the entire concept of imposter syndrome – originally coined as imposter phenomenon in 1978 by Pauline Clance and Dr.

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