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> "I said no because their new team lead said during the interview, “I know Indians, I have worked with them. One thing I cannot take from Indians is dishonesty. If you lie to me, I will not bear you. I am only taking you on the team because the company says you did a very exceptional job!”"

This is what people mean by intersectionality; despite having "a Masters in Power Engineering with an honors in Digital Technology Management from a very well known German university", being a woman and being an Indian immigrant means that the odds are stacked against her.

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I am not sure where you pulled your definition of intersectionality, but doesn't sound like anything related. I am not sure neithee why you added the fact that she was a woman to the equation when the comment clearly was targeted at her race / culture. It's annoying cause it somewhat implies that the million of immigrant men don't go through so similar if not worst experiences

That's the opposite of what I was trying to say: that she gets comments targeted at race / culture, and also the discrimination against women in engineering.

Again I am not sure that's how social intersectionality is supposed to work. You seems to see it as a relatively simple algebra : women have it worst than men , Immigrant worst than non immigrant so immigrant women have it "super worst". IMHO this is too simplistic, the way social identities blend together can't be predict thsst way. The authors decided to relate her experience as an immigrant, let's just respect that and not try to pull gender into when we d ont have enough information to have a meaningful conclusion

I think of intersectionality as being the examination of different experiences from specific segments of the population. Multiple traits co-exist to contribute to a particular experience.

For example, many people make generalizations by simply splitting an observation by male and female. Men do this. Women do that.

When in reality it could easily be the case that a woman of x ethnicity observes particular observation in that realm versus a man of y ethnicity.

Or a homosexual man of a visible minority has a much different experience than a heterosexual woman of an ethnic majority.

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