Women in the Technical Fields of the Silicon Valley

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There was a very deeply ingrained belief that women don't like this stuff, or they're not good at the stuff. The counterculture also emerges in response to some of these trends. Can we think about where computing was in the late sixties? Iio go back to one thousand odyssey that comes out in 19th century. And there's still this kind of blindness to the fact that you have talent that is at different places in the life course with different care giving demands.

Paris Marx is joined by Margaret O’Mara to discuss how the state and military have been at the center of the US tech industry since the very beginning, but how it was written out of the popular narrative during the neoliberal turn in the 1980s.

Margaret O’Mara is the author of “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America” and a professor at the University of Washington. Follow Margaret on Twitter as @margaretomara.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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