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Brotopia

Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

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Brotopia

By: Emily Chang
Narrated by: Emily Chang
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About this listen

 Instant National Bestseller

A PBS NewsHour-New York Times Book Club Pick

"Excellent." —San Francisco Chronicle

Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman.

It's time to break up the boys' club. Incisive, powerful, and a fierce rallying cry, Emily Chang shows us how to fix Silicon Valley’s toxic culture--to bring down Brotopia, once and for all.

Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops for women in tech. Instead, it’s a "Brotopia," where men hold the cards and make the rules. While millions of dollars may seem to grow on trees in this land of innovation, tech’s aggressive, misogynistic, work-at-all costs culture has shut women out of the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world.

Brotopia reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures even as its companies claim the moral high ground, and how women are speaking out and fighting 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. Exposing the flawed logic in common excuses for why tech has long suffered the “pipeline” problem and invests in the delusion of meritocracy, Brotopia also shows how bias coded into AI, internet troll culture, and the reliance on pattern recognition harms not just women in tech but us all, and at unprecedented scale. Gender Studies Labour & Industrial Relations Organisational Behavior Politics & Government Social Sciences Utopian Women in Business Workplace & Organisational Behavior Business Silicon Valley Discrimination Fantasy Technology Management Computer Science

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Critic reviews

"[Chang] is clearly engaged with and often incensed by her subject, and the best parts of Brotopia are those moments when she actively resists the 'it's all good' ethos of the Bay Area and cuts down chauvinism with the disdain it deserves." —New York Times

"Brotopia goes far beyond the salacious to offer an important examination of why the technology industry is so dominated by men—and how women are pushing back." —Financial Times

"When reading Brotopia, it's easy to envision it as a film…. Women who have triumphed in tech despite the odds…could be the film's heroines, and so would the young girls learning how to code despite it all." —The Verge

"…Chang's scrutiny breaks open a wide doorway, allowing fresh ideas about a tainted industry to circulate and spark discussions." —Kirkus Review
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this was a really insightful book I did enjoy it overall it was well written and highlights some very important and and intriguing to see how the tech industry has evolved over time.

an eye opener

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I was drawn in to reading this novel by the shocking Vanity Fair article describing Silicon Valley's sex parties, but quickly discovered that Chang's work is much more than just a look at the underbelly of the tech world. Heavy at times on the ear due due to the heavy research, but in the same way, brilliantly detailed with facts and figures, allowing the reader enough fodder to springboard off into specific areas if they choose. Listen in small doses, but definitely listen.

Listen in small doses, but definitely listen

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Highly listenable. Clear discussion on issues we all live (put up) with in tech and STEM fields.

Current, and a must listen!

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It is a shameful ‘story’ and many in Silicon Valley should be hanging their heads in shame. The book is thoroughly researched, concise and well narrated. Highly recommended. It will give you a very different perspective on what seemingly passes for work in the Valley.

Highly recommended

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This is a biased, one-sided book. A lot of false information in the book, especially the part about the sex parties

Waste of time!

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