CEO Mistaken for Her Assistant
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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2018 · Science & Technology
Ever been assumed to be something you weren’t because of your gender? Share your stories here. In this video, Daphne Koller, a brilliant data scientist and cofounder of Coursera, describes how her male assistant was assumed to be her boss. Silicon Valley and the US are not alone in stereotyping tech jobs. Women’s exclusion from particular roles in computing in Britain from the 1940s to the 1970s, which led to chronic shortages in labor and expertise, is explored in the CHM Medium article “Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Computing History:” https://medium.com/chmcore/women-gender-sexuality-and-computing-history-4bda37e7165f Lot number: X8555.2018 Catalog number: 102740287
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