Okay but seriously: how can I even begin to explain to the other cis men in my job how me ending up in stem at my job is a miracle that i made happen.
"Only boys can do math" is a sentence that I heard until high school and mind you i was assigned female at birth*.
When I was scoring a good grade in math it was deemed a stroke of good luck because it couldn't have possible been a skill from me.
I wasn't allowed to learn chess by my parents.
My parents highly emphasised me to pick up "feminine" hobbies. Heck I was even forbidden to befriend boys when I reached age 11.
The majority of undergraduate students in my major were cis men. And I could really feel that they were sometimes even favoured by some of the teaching professors (in comparison to me & the other folks who were either not cis male or not male alltogether).
And then when I entered job interviews after my studies I had been rejected so many times with sentences like "you would be completely overwhelmed if you were to take this job" + I was misgendered every single fucking time in these job interviews except that one time that I succeeded in my job interview (my profiles on these job hunting plazttforms were always male btw and my official first name is really just a plain old male name so like.. there literally was no reason for the people holding my job interviews to misgender me at all, yet they would just call me "Ms").

*it shouldn't matter what I was assigned at birth but i have no better concept to convey the problem of misogyny directly affecting me / my past / even now tbh