(Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic for YouTube) getty “I’ve had my abilities and commitment to my job questioned. I’ve been left out of key industry events and social gatherings. I’ve had meetings with external leaders where they primarily addressed the more junior male colleagues. I’ve had my comments frequently interrupted and my ideas ignored until they were rephrased by men. No matter how often this all happened, it still hurt.” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, also one of Google’s earliest employees, shared her experiences of gender bias in her career in response to a controversial memo circulated in 2017 by a former Google employee claiming that the gender gap in tech was down to biological causes. Wojcicki announced last month that she was stepping down to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.” The number of female employees at YouTube increased from 24% in 2014 when she became CEO to nearly 30% at the time of her article. When she completed her MBA at UCLA Anderson in 1998, Susan Wojcicki was herself a member of a cohort with 30% women students. In 2022, more than half of business school programs reported a stable or […]