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Brotopia : breaking up the boys' club of Silicon Valley / Emily Chang.
Lippincott Library HD6060.5.U5 C52 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chang, Emily, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet industry.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Sex discrimination in employment--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Sex discrimination against women--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Discrimination in employment--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Discrimination in employment.
- Internet industry--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & information Technology.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
- Local Subjects:
- Sex discrimination in employment--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Sex discrimination against women--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Discrimination in employment--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Internet industry--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & information Technology.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- "Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman. For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot tubs and network at sex parties. In this powerful expose, Bloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures despite decades of companies claiming the moral high ground (Don't Be Evil! Connect the World!)--and how women are finally starting to speak out and fight back. Drawing on her deep network of Silicon Valley insiders, Chang opens the boardroom doors of male-dominated venture capital firms like Kleiner Perkins, the subject of Ellen Pao's high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit, and Sequoia, where a partner once famously said they "won't lower their standards" just to hire women. Interviews with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer--who got their start at Google, where just one in five engineers is a woman--reveal just how hard it is to crack the Silicon Ceiling. And Chang shows how women such as former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, entrepreneur Niniane Wang, and game developer Brianna Wu, have risked their careers and sometimes their lives to pave a way for other women. Silicon Valley's aggressive, misogynistic, work-at-all costs culture has shut women out of the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world. It's time to break up the boys' club. Emily Chang shows us how to fix this toxic culture--to bring down Brotopia, once and for all"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Not just a pretty face: tech's original sin
- From nerd to bro : how tech bypassed women
- The Paypal mafia and the myth of the meritocracy
- Google: when good intentions aren't enough
- The tipping point: women engineers speak out
- Superheroes and superjerks: the role of the venture capitalists
- Sex and the Valley: men play, women pay
- One hack doesn't fit all: how tech disrupts family
- Escape from trolltopia: women's fight to save the internet
- Silicon valley's second chance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780735213531
- 0735213534
- OCLC:
- 1000234925
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