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Brotopia

Emily Chang

Why do women leave tech faster than men, and how did Silicon Valley come to exclude them?

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Author
Emily Chang

Why read it

  • You will learn why putting a woman at the top of the org chart does not by itself change a company's culture
  • You will see how hiring for culture fit and people like us turned the idea of meritocracy into a way of keeping women out
  • You will understand how small daily slights and unwanted advances add up to push women out of tech jobs

Who it is for

  • A tech employee who has felt like the odd one out
  • A manager trying to build a more diverse team
  • A founder or investor who wants to change industry norms

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE: TECH’S ORIGINAL SIN
  3. MEETING LENA
  4. NAVIGATING BROTOPIA
  5. THE FUTURE WE (DON’T) DESERVE
  6. FROM NERD TO BRO: HOW TECH BYPASSED WOMEN
  7. FROM PIONEERS TO OUTSIDERS
  8. HOW WOMEN GOT PROFILED OUT
  9. WOMEN’S NARROW PATH GETS NARROWER
  10. APPLE UPSETS THE NERD CART
  11. HOW TRILOGY WROTE THE BRO CODE
  12. THE CULTURE-FIT CHALLENGE
  13. COULD WOMEN HAVE PREVENTED THE DOT-COM BUST?
  14. AFTER THE CRASH
  15. THE PAYPAL MAFIA AND THE MYTH OF THE MERITOCRACY
  16. CONTRARIANS BY NATURE
  17. PAYPAL: WHEN “MERITOCRACY” MEANS “PEOPLE LIKE US”
  18. HIRING ONLY PEOPLE LIKE US
  19. THE PAYPAL OCTOPUS
  20. MAX LEVCHIN’S DIVERSITY AWAKENING
  21. A CRITIQUE OF MERITOCRACY
  22. THIEL GOES TO THE WHITE HOUSE
  23. GOOGLE: WHEN GOOD INTENTIONS AREN’T ENOUGH
  24. THE WOMEN WHO BUILT GOOGLE
  25. HOW WOMEN LEADERS INFLUENCED GOOGLE CULTURE
  26. TRYING TO IMPLEMENT DIVERSITY
  27. MIXED SIGNALS FROM THE TOP
  28. SETTLING AT AVERAGE
  29. THE INFAMOUS GOOGLE MEMO
  30. BREAKING THROUGH THE SILICON CEILING
  31. THE RISE AND FALL OF MARISSA MAYER
  32. LEANING IN
  33. THE TIPPING POINT: WOMEN ENGINEERS SPEAK OUT
  34. BREAKING BREAD WITH WOMEN ENGINEERS
  35. UNWANTED ADVANCES, 24/7
  36. THE “ELEPHANT IN THE VALLEY”
  37. TO SUE OR NOT TO SUE
  38. SURVIVING ALL THE “LITTLE THINGS”
  39. THE DOUBLE (AND TRIPLE) MINORITIES
  40. BRILLIANT JERKS
  41. WHAT THEY DO FOR LOVE
  42. SUPERHEROES AND SUPERJERKS: THE ROLE OF THE VENTURE CAPITALISTS
  43. WHY FEMALE VCS ARE SO SCARCE
  44. THE POST-PAO EFFECT
  45. HOW MALE VCS DEAL WITH FEMALE FOUNDERS
  46. THE PREDATORS IN VC
  47. THE FOLKS WHO COULD FORCE THE VCS TO CHANGE
  48. WOMEN GOING THEIR OWN WAY
  49. SEX AND THE VALLEY: MEN PLAY, WOMEN PAY
  50. SEX PARTIES OF THE TECH AND FAMOUS
  51. FOUNDER HOUNDERS
  52. THE NEW PARADIGM FOR WOMEN GETTING SCREWED
  53. HACKING MONOGAMY
  54. CONFERENCE ROOM G
  55. ONE HACK DOESN’T FIT ALL: HOW TECH DISRUPTS FAMILY
  56. TECH’S “LEAKY BUCKET”
  57. WORKING LONG, HARD, AND SMART
  58. PARENTHOOD AND THE PRESSURE TO KEEP UP
  59. BUILDING A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM
  60. ESCAPE FROM TROLLTOPIA: WOMEN’S FIGHT TO SAVE THE INTERNET

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