Tracy Chou is not your average woman in STEM.

Tracy Chou 不是你平常認知中的理工科女孩。

Tracy is a software engineer who has been employed at some of the top tech companies in the world.

她是軟體工程師，曾在幾間全球頂尖的科技公司工作。

I grew up in Silicon Valley, the daughter of two software engineers and computer scientists.

我在矽谷長大，父母是軟體工程師，也是電腦科學家。

So, you could say in some ways that it was always in my blood.

所以某種程度上，你可以說我天生適合這行。

But as she entered into the offices of silicon valley, she experienced the unsettling feeling that can come from being the lone woman.

然而當她不只一次進入矽谷辦公室，她經歷了身為少數女性可能碰到的惶恐不安。

I had a lot of people flirting with me or hitting on me or giving me gifts.

有很多人對我調情、展開追求、送我禮物。

It was more than a year into working full-time that I first had the realization that I might be treated differently because I was a woman.

在全職工作一年多以後，我才領悟到自己之所以受到不同對待是因為我是女生。

When I was treated differently, I thought that it was more due to something wrong with me.

當我得到不一樣的待遇，我想過可能是自己有哪邊做得不好。

As more people started talking about these issues, I started to see that my experience was not unique and that I wasn't crazy.

可是當越來越多人開始討論這些問題，我發現自己不是單一個案，我也沒有瘋掉。

There was no question in Tracy's mind that there was a pervasive, sexist culture throughout her industry.

Tracy 非常確信整個科技業充斥著帶有性別歧視的文化。

But she needed the numbers to prove it.

可是她需要數據來支持她的立場。

There were no numbers across industry overall, and so in the back of my head, I would actually keep a running count of who the other female engineers were and who the other minorities were.

整個科技業並不存在一筆整體的數據，因此我會自己不斷累積計算其他位女性工程師、其他少數群體。

I realized also that people weren't tracking that data.

我發現沒有人在追蹤這方面的資料。

I think in some ways it was because it's easier to ignore the problem if you're not looking at any data on it.

當手邊沒有資料佐證，大家就更容易放著問題不管。

That made me think, we really do need to put these numbers down.

這點使我更加肯定建立這些數據資料的必要性。

So she took matters into her own hands.

於是她展開行動。

She published her company's gender diversity stats on Medium.

她在 Medium 部落格平台公布了自家公司的性別分布資料。

More and more people started sharing it.

更多人開始分享他們的數據。

The first big company that released their data was Google.

首先公布資料的大公司是 Google。

And then all the other companies really wanted to follow suit.

接著更多其他公司想要跟進。

Later, seeing Apple and Amazon, I realized that there was actually a connection, and that me on my side, writing a little Medium post and tweeting about it in my little world actually could have an impact on the larger industry.

在看到蘋果和亞馬遜的分享之後，我明白某種連結確實存在；而我只是在自己的小世界中發布了一篇部落格和推文，就能對產業影響深遠。

Tracy no longer refers to herself as just an engineer.

Tracy 現在不再只把自己看做一位工程師。

She's also become one of tech's most impassioned diversity advocates, co-founding Project Include, a nonprofit that uses data to help tech companies diversify their staff.

她同時是科技界中最富有熱忱的聲援者之一，還共同創辦了 Project Include；此非營利組織運用資料來協助科技公司提高員工的多樣性。

Now that we're having much more discussion around diversity, people who are having less great experiences and understand that it's not necessarily them, and that there are bigger structural problems that need to be addressed.

今天關於多樣性的討論更加熱烈，大家開始明白問題不應全歸咎於個人，而必須從更龐大的結構性問題著手。

Sometimes when I feel down, I'll actually be lucky to get someone reaching out, and sometimes it's a younger woman in industry, or maybe someone still in school who will say, thank you for doing this work.

沮喪失意的時候，我想自己很幸運能向那些求助的人伸出援手；可能是業界一位年輕女性，也可能是還在上學的女孩看見、感謝我的付出。

I'm doing my little part to make the industry better for the people who are coming after me.

我正在貢獻自己的微薄力量，為了我身後的人，讓這個產業變得更加美好。