The Competance Tax

​Code& Femme In Tech meetups invites all women and femme identifying technologists to a conversation about the extra steps we go through to "be enough".

​You've already earned it. You're already doing the work. So why are you still apologising, softening, making yourself smaller for people less qualified than you? Liesel Bester (Lies, for short) talks about the competence tax women pay, the protection racket of politeness, and what happens when you stop making yourself smaller.

​She'll unpack "performing deference" - how it shows up in daily life through real examples - and what happens when you're expected to meet people where they are while they've done none of the work to meet you where you are.

​Show up to say "I'm FIT and I fit".