'Lean Out' Urges Women to Create Their Own Culture in Silicon Valley

Elizabeth Herman

Metro Silicon Valley | July 24, 2015

Serial entrepreneur and veteran coder Elissa Shevinsky thinks it's time for women to stop trying to be part of sexist Silicon Valley and to create their own spaces.

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