Why I’m yet another woman leaving the tech industry

With the continued hardships I know I’d encounter, especially as a mother, remaining in tech is too financially and emotionally risky.

Chelsey Louise Glasson
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readApr 8, 2024

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A photo of Chelsey Glasson holding and kissing her baby.
Me and my first child.

In my twenties, I thought I would someday become a lawyer. Having interned for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and then working as a public policy analyst…

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User researcher, writer, and future human-centered attorney. Author of Black Box: A Pregnancy Discrimination Memoir.