“There’s this idea that you’re supposed to be modest and put your head down — that work is your ‘family’ and you’re lucky to be there. But work is not your family”
Aminatou Sow. Photo-Illustration: by Stevie Remsberg; Photo by Krista Schlueter Get That Money is an exploration of the many ways we think about our finances — what we earn, what we have, and what we want. As part of the series, we’re interviewing successful women about how they feel about their paychecks and bank balances.
The child of a diplomat father, Sow was born in Guinea and grew up between Nigeria, Belgium, and France, landing in the United States at age 19 to attend the University of Texas at Austin. If one thing is universal about all of these cultures, Sow says, it’s that “everybody is fucked up about money in a very specific way.
I’m in a cohort that shares salary information all the time and refers each other to jobs. It’s a thing we’ve done since our 20s; we’re like our own weird freelancers’ union. It’s mostly women, but there are some men. People’s salaries should be public information. Particularly for women and marginalized people, those numbers are really important. I always tell women to ask the men in their lives about their salaries. On Tech LadyMafia, we have a men’s auxiliary.
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