Madre del Ingenio, La - Marçal, Katrine
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An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skewed innovation, technology, and history It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. Mother of Invention is a fascinating and eye-opening examination of business, technology, and innovation through a…mehr

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An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skewed innovation, technology, and history It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. Mother of Invention is a fascinating and eye-opening examination of business, technology, and innovation through a feminist lens. Because it wasn't just the suitcase. Drawing on examples from electric cars to bra seamstresses to tech billionaires, Marçal shows how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back, delaying innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and distorting our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the "Ceramic Age" or the "Flax Age," since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way. This is a sweeping tour of the global economy with a powerful message: if we upend our biases, we can unleash our full potential.
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Katrine Marçal escribe sobre mujeres e innovación. Su primer libro, ¿Quién le hacía la cena a Adam Smith?, se ha traducido a más de veinte idiomas y Margaret Atwood lo describió como «un libro inteligente, divertido y ameno sobre mujeres, economía y dinero». Fue uno de los libros del año de The Guardian en 2015. Además, ese mismo año, Katrine apareció en la lista de las cien mujeres más importantes de la BBC. Actualmente, Katrine trabaja para el periódico sueco Dagens Nyheter. Ha dado conferencias en el programa de Negocios y Economía de la Universidad de Oxford, la Facultad de Economía de Londres y en la Real Escuela de Tecnología de Estocolmo. Como periodista especializada en información financiera, ha entrevistado a muchos de los grandes pensadores económicos del mundo. La madre del ingenio es su segundo libro, un best seller en Suecia que se publicará en más de diez idiomas.