A friend shared this Harvard Business Review article with me and it hit home on so many points, both personally and the greater systemic biases in the workplace. I have always seen imposter syndrome as something 'wrong' with me or something I had to overcome versus something wrong with the workplace.
"Imposter syndrome directs our view toward fixing women at work instead of fixing the places where women work."
“Imposter syndrome,” or doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud at work, is a diagnosis often given to women. But the fact that it’s considered a diagnosis at all is problematic. The concept, whose development in the ‘70s excluded the effects of systemic racism, classism, xenophobia, and other biases, took a fairly universal feeling of discomfort, second-guessing, and mild anxiety in the workplace and pathologized it, especially for women. The answer to overcoming imposter syndrome is not to fix individuals, but to create an environment that fosters a number of different leadership styles and where diversity of racial, ethnic, and gender identities is viewed as just as professional as the current model."