As a women in BD, you regularly get pitched for casual sex.
This is a real problem.
Here’s my experience and how I’ve coped 🧭
For the first 2 years, I wore my company t-shirt religiously like a military uniform. At a talk, during a pitch, or on the conference floor, you will never see me without it.
It worked to a certain extend. As the message cannot be more clear - hi, I am here to work. HOWEVER - because I am Asian and we look young to the untrained eye, with my tech worker , I was regularly passed over during BD events, or assumed to be someone unimportant at the company (I am the founde