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When a system fails to protect you, your biology will do it for you. We call it anger; science calls it survival.

I’ve watched brilliant women walk into a room with receipts… and still shrink. I was one of them. Not because I lacked competence - because I was already braced for impact. But why? I’ve got a few theories but I’ll let you decide for yourself. Lean In’s State of Black Women in Corporate America report is influential. It’s built on McKinsey + Lean In’s Women in the Workplace research, which they describe as drawing from 590+ companies and 22M+ employees over multiple years .