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020			_a1419758047 _q(hardcover) : _c$26.00
020			_a9781419758041 _q(hardcover) : _c$26.00
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050		4	_aT36 _b.M373 2021
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100	1		_aMarçal, Katrine,
245	1	0	_aMother of invention : _bhow good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men / _cKatrine Marçal ; translated by Alex Fleming.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bAbrams Press, _c[2021]
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bAbrams Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_a296 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_aTranslation of Att uppfinna världen from the Swedish.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-296).
505	0	0	_tIn which we invent the wheel and, after 5,000 years, manage to attach it to a suitcase -- _tIn which we start the car without breaking out jaw -- _tIn which bras and girdles take us to the moon -- _tIn which we learn the difference between horsepower and girl power -- _tIn which a great invention is made in Västerås, and we go on a whale hunt -- _tIn which influencers get richer than hackers -- _tIn which the black swan turns out to have a body -- _tIn which Serena Williams beats Garry Kasparov -- _tIn which we forget to ask about Mary -- _tIn which we decide not to burn the world at the stake.
520			_aThe wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but 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. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few) women travelling alone, and the wheeled suitcase wasn't 'invented' until it was no longer threatening to masculinity. Mother of Invention draws on this example and many others, from electric cars to tech billionaires, to show how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back. Our traditional notions about men and women have delayed innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and have distorted 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. Marçal takes us on a tour of the global economy, arguing that gendered assumptions dictate which businesses get funding, how we value work, and how we trace human progress." -- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aInventions.
650		0	_aInventors.
650		0	_aTechnological innovations.
650		0	_aTechnology and women.
650		0	_aWomen inventors.
700	1		_aFleming, Alex _c(Translator),
700	1	2	_iEnglish translation of (work): _aMarçal, Katrine. _tAtt uppfinna världen.
740	0		_aAtt uppfinna världen.
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