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As I reflected on my own experience over a 25-year career in technology, I realized that there is more to it than an oppressive male dominated environment and an unconscious bias in corporate cultures that hold us back. 

Personal power is the energy behind all your actions. 

It’s the way of putting your ideas, visions and inspirations out in the world.  When you’ve internalized negative beliefs and disempower yourself, you are shutting down the flow of energy to do meaningful work, to take action on your own behalf, and to trust your decision making process because you begin to live in a state of constant self-doubt and frustration.

If you take away only one thing from this article, let it be this:  the oppressive messages (spoken and unspoken) that you receive from others are based on their own faulty beliefs, perceptions and projections about women.  You have adopted those as your own incorrect beliefs and they have become part of your self-identity.  Internalized oppression is habitual negative thinking and beliefs that you use against yourself.