Feb 20 / Richa Bansal

Being the Only Woman in the Room Changed My Career

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I was the only girl in my entire Mechanical Engineering batch at IIT Delhi.

I was the only woman in my family to start a business.

I was the only one who applied for my EB1A when every lawyer told me I had a 1% chance of success.

Being the only one isn’t always easy. You don’t have role models to look up to.

You get questioned - constantly. You get told to take the safer path. You get reminded of the risks more than the possibilities.

And after a while, you start wondering:

Am I really meant for this?

Maybe they’re right.

Maybe I should just follow the path that’s expected of me.

But every time I listened to myself instead of the noise, it changed my career.

If I had listened when they said mechanical engineering wasn’t for women, I wouldn’t have built a thriving career in Tech.

If I had settled for the first offer I got, I wouldn’t have held out for what I was truly worth.

If I had let self-doubt win, I wouldn’t have taken the risks that led to the biggest growth of my life.

Because the biggest career leaps don’t happen when you follow the path that’s already been walked.

They happen when you stop looking for proof that it’s possible and become the proof yourself.

If you’ve ever been the only one in the room, I see you. And I know how much strength it takes to keep going.
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