We all want to belong. For some of us it’s easy, we turn up, we be ourselves and we’re accepted. Noone thinks twice, no one doubts or worries.

And if we feel like we belong then we are more productive and our teams are more effective. [Hicks, Lee, Foster-Marks 2023](https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/guides/new-developer-research-paper)

But what if we don’t feel like we belong?

Women in technology especially have difficulty finding that sense of belonging.

* “Can you just take some notes for us?”

* “You’re a girl so you’re the project manager, right?”

* Across many technical fields, research has shown that women face systematically more skepticism and doubt about their technical contributions.

It sometimes feels like to succeed, you have to contort yourself into the shape you’re expected to be, rather than be who you are.

So when Cat Hicks posted this way back in November:

*“I don't want to get a single new invitation from yet another platform that wants to mine my personal career story and Get More Girls to Code until I get more invitations to talk about what's happening for women who are currently coding.”*

We saw an opportunity.

A conversation about belonging, discussing how to create an environment where women who code feel like they can belong – and what this kind of environment unlocks for technical innovation and wellbeing for everyone.

Because if we do that, then it opens the door for everyone else who doesn’t quite fit the mould.

It took a while to pull it all together, but now Rebel Astronaut can proudly announce:

**I Want to Belong - Creating Environments Where Women Thrive.**
*A conversation with Dr Cat Hicks and Special Guest Interviewer Dr Jennifer Pierce.*

**Tuesday 2nd April**
**5\.30pm GMT \| 9\.30am PDT**

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