Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley Audiobook (Free)

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‘Brotopia is greater than a business book. Silicon Valley retains amazing power over our present lives aswell as whatever utopia (or headache) might come next.’ –New York Situations

Silicon Valley is today’s utopia where anyone can transform the world. Unless you’re a woman.

For ladies in tech, Silicon Valley isn’t a fantasyland of unicorns, digital reality rainbows, about Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It’s a ‘Brotopia,’ where guys hold all of the credit cards and make all of the rules. Greatly outnumbered, women face dangerous workplaces rife with discrimination and intimate harassment, where traders take conferences in sizzling tubs and network at sex parties.

Within this powerful exposé, 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 surface (AVOID BEING Evil! Connect the World!)–and how women are finally beginning to speak out and fight back.

Drawing on her deep networking of Silicon Valley insiders, Chang opens the boardroom doorways of male-dominated venture capital firms like Kleiner Perkins, the main topic of Ellen Pao’s high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit, and Sequoia, in which a partner once famously said they ‘won’t reduce their standards’ just to hire women. Interviews with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and previous Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer–who got their begin at Google, where just one single in five designers is usually a woman–reveal just how hard it really is to split the Silicon Ceiling. And Chang displays how women such as former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, entrepreneur Niniane Wang, and video game designer Brianna Wu, have risked their careers and occasionally their lives to pave a means for other females.

Silicon Valley’s aggressive, misogynistic, work-at-all costs tradition has shut ladies from the greatest prosperity creation in the annals of the globe. It is time to split up the guys’ membership. Emily Chang displays us how exactly to repair this harmful culture–to lower Brotopia, once and for all.