Published in the Huffington Post earlier today: Would I have the career I have today without having had easy access to birth control? I doubt it. Tech women are like any other women. Most of us ‘successful’ technical women were uninsured or low-income at the beginning of our careers, including those of us in Silicon Valley. We were students, we went for stretches without health insurance, we had to manage when we got pregnant just like any other woman building a career and taking her rightful place in our society. [...]