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Brotopia

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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.

Author Biography:

Emily Chang is the anchor and executiveproducer of Bloomberg Technology, a daily TV show focused on global technologyand Bloomberg Studio 1.0, where she regularly speaks to top tech executives,investors, and entrepreneurs. She was previously a CNN correspondent based inBeijing and London, and has won five regional Emmy awards for her reporting.She is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in San Francisco with herhusband and three children.
Release date NZ
February 6th, 2018
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributor
  • Interviewee Emily Chang
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Portfolio
Pages
320
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Dimensions
160x235x27
ISBN-13
9780735213531
Product ID
27572354

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