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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how work is changing us.

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thank you. I'm a daughter of feminists. My parents raised me to believe that I could be anything I wanted.

They pushed me to achieve in college. They encouraged me to be

ambitious in my career and I really did believe that work was a

meritocracy. I could do anything I put my mind to. I remember landing a junior

writing job at Business Week and then getting hired at Fortune. I thought that I was just coming in at the very best moment in history.

I mean there were still people on staff back then who remembered when women weren't

allowed to be writers. They had to be researchers, fact-checkers. Five years

before I was even born, a group of women had sued Fortune's parent company demanding

change, and now here I was writing features sometimes cover stories. I don't

know when things began to seem more complicated but it was probably in my early 30s. That's when I looked up and noticed that many of my female peers had moved on to different kinds of roles.

As I grew more and more senior at Fortune and then joined Wired, I became one of just a few female writers and then somehow the only senior woman magazine writer at Wired.

And I often felt that my male colleagues didn't share my story

sensibilities. I had to get more comfortable with rejection and to fight more for my

ideas and I found myself asking is it me am I just not good at this and as

I considered where I might go in my career. I remember thinking then,

oh, this was never a meritocracy.

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