The same issue comes up every time. "I offer an idea at a meeting, no one listens to me and then a man says the same thing and everyone listens". This is what I hear again and again from women in tech. Often they are the only woman on a team and so the only woman in the room. Often they are smart, nerdy and not very assertive. Sometimes, not always, they are very polite too. Their ideas get overlooked and it upsets them. And they ask me for advice. [...]