Brotopia: Breaking Up The Boys' Club Of Silicon Valley,New

Instant National Bestsellera Pbs Newshournew York Times Book Club Pick'Excellent.' San Francisco Chroniclesilicon 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 Valleys Toxic Cultureto Bring Down Brotopia, Once And For All.Silicon Valley Is Not A Fantasyland Of Unicorns, Virtual Reality Rainbows, And 3Dprinted Lollipops For Women In Tech. Instead, Its 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, Techs Aggressive, Misogynistic, Workatall 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 Maledominated Venture Capital Firms Like Kleiner Perkins, The Subject Of Ellen Pao'S Highprofile 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.