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We Got Into the Room. Now Give Us a Reason to Stay. (opens the original)
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Your Users Said Yes. That Doesn’t Mean They Want It. (opens the original)
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Change the System, Not the Women (opens the original)
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I could not read.That little girl sat in class and faked it, and nobody noticed.I moved my finger across the page like the child next to me. Head down, I watched out of the corner of my eye, and I turned the page when the rest of the class turned the page. I pretended to be lost when the teacher called on me, and somehow nobody figured out that I could not read until I had to pass a test to move on to fourth grade.I made myself invisible on purpose.Then I spent the rest of my adult career trying
The Woman in the Machine (opens the original)
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For most of the past decade, the default voice of a digital assistant has been female. Apple’s Siri launched in 2011 with a female voice in much of the world. Amazon’s Alexa arrived as a woman in 2014. Microsoft’s Cortana and Google’s assistant did the same.Why did so many companies choose a woman’s voice, and what does that tell us about how we perceive women?Stanford researcher Nass ran a series of experiments to find out what happens inside our heads when we hear a man or woman speak. He gave
The Carrier Bag Theory of Intelligence (opens the original)
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