Geek Girl Rising

I FEEL CONFLICTED ABOUT THIS BOOK. I mean yes it's awesome to highlight the women and girls who are active and making a difference in tech, no they don't shy away from issues like the “leaky pipeline” (women who leave after a couple years because the work environment or demands that conflict with life/family/health) or diversity (literally, ppl get funding for startups from people who can relate to them, which makes POC women largely fighting an uphill battle)

OK, admittedly I was largely put-off by all the focus on capitalism and pitching to investors. I felt like the fact (white?) women had to build their own funding streams said something fucked up about the way tech gets done. I didn't like that they want till like 1/2 way through to admit that the category of ‘women' mostly means white women. They seem to do a good job of interviewing and profiling a diverse collection of women - but it wasn't always clear what ppls backgrounds were. I also found it weird that all the women had their style described all the time petpeeve I would have preferred pictures of everyone since part of the problem the book is meant to address is visibility - I know what Bill Gates and Steve Jobs looks like, let's see the women working so hard!