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Clinical trials často zahrnujou jen chlapy! A pak prášky na ženský působí omezeně, jestli vůbec. Tyvolééé

In the tech world, the implicit assumption that men are the default human remains. When Apple launched its health-monitoring system with much fanfare in 2014, it boasted a ‘comprehensive’ health tracker.15 It could track blood pressure; steps taken; blood alcohol level; even molybdenum (nope, me neither) and copper intake. But as many women pointed out at the time, they forgot one crucial detail: a period tracker.

One-Size-Fits-Men, chapter 8

ty cihly mě třeba mentálně odbouraly.

AI biased towards women - their voice to high, CV not interesting enough.

Google noticed: started hosting workshops, for W to ask for promotions more, like men. But "perhaps it wasn’t that women’s rates of putting themselves up for promotion were too low. Perhaps it was that men’s were too high." But they did workshops for the girls anyways. To fix them

But it was in fact around this time that employers were starting to realise that programming was not the low-skilled clerical job they had once thought. It wasn’t like typing or feeling. It required advanced problem-solving skills. And, brilliance bias being more powerful than objective reality (given women were already doing the programming, they clearly had these skills) industry leaders started training men.

"Men go without saying, and women don’t get said at all. Because when we say human, on the whole, we mean man."

"These silences are everywhere"

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