Tech has become another wayfor men to oppress women | Lizzie O’Shea

We act as if technology were neutral but it's not. The challenge now is to highlight and remove the gender bias

" Lizzie O'Shea is a human rights lawyer, broadcaster and writer

'Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive, despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit," wrote former Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia Martinez in 2016. "They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence. But the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they'd become precisely the sort of useless baggage you'd trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel." This is from his insider account of Silicon Valley, Chaos Monkeys. The book was a bestseller. The New York Times called it "an irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment". Anyone who is surprised by the recent revelations of sexism spreading like wildfire through the technology industry has not been paying attention.

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