#### This week, we get down to the business of being a badass woman in tech with Sarah Drasner, an engineer, author, award-winning speaker, and renowned expert on web animation.

We hear about mentorship, using your profile to help others be seen, building a body of work, and so much more.

> For the first little while I was trying to pull myself up by my bootstraps and just, like, work really hard to kind of get some place where I felt more comfortable—where I was not just taking any job that was offered me. And then the second part of that is to extend whatever privilege I might have to others…to promote the work of other people that are doing great work in the community that might not be seen.

> —Sarah Drasner

We talk with Sarah about:

- What it’s like to write a technical book like _[SVG Animations](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920045335.do)_, Sarah’s book from O’Reilly last year

- Using machine learning to make images on the web more accessible for blind people

- The benefits of diverse teams

- The badassery of Arlan Hamilton and her company, [Backstage Capital](http://backstagecapital.com/)

- How to get over feeling overlooked in your career (and the secret benefits of being underestimated)

- Mentoring others, finding mentorship for yourself, and getting comfortable in a senior role

- Why the number of women in technical roles [isn’t going up](https://www.salon.com/2017/08/13/google-manifesto-women-in-engineering-declining/)

- How visibility can lead to harassment

Also in this episode, the three of us get real about the pros and cons of showing your age at work, and discuss all the anxieties and double-standards we face when it comes to how we look and what we wear.

- Katel becomes an unofficial spokesperson for [Billie Razors](https://mybillie.com/) (call us, Billie! We can make it official anytime)

- Sara talks about Linguist Deborah Tannen’s 1993 essay, “[There is No Unmarked Woman](http://academics.otc.edu/media/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/There-is-No-Unmarked-Women.pdf)”

- Michelle Wolf [isn’t apologizing](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/01/607262463/comic-michelle-wolf-responds-to-backlash-im-glad-i-stuck-to-my-guns) for her [comedy set at the White House Correspondents Dinner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDbx1uArVOM)

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