LinkedIn is One Big Toxic Circle Jerk
The corporate Rolodex recently left behind nearly 3,000,000 women and LinkedIn makes that fact painfully obvious.
Many moms, myself included, were forced out of the workforce when Covid hit in early 2020. We have kids that are too young to fend for themselves and jobs that were either unwilling or unable to accommodate working from home.
With the hope that most schools across the country will be back to normal with in-person instruction for fall 2021, many women are beginning to reenter the workforce.
We are collectively updating our resumes, brushing up on our interview skills, and logging onto LinkedIn to start putting our feelers out there through our existing network.
A few weeks ago, when I finally logged on after a long hiatus, it hit me, LinkedIn is just one big toxic male circle jerk.
Blame it on all the time I spent at home over the last two years — maybe it made me more reflective and critical, or perhaps LinkedIn has always had a weird frat guy vibe, and I couldn’t see it before.
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