I found this book really helpful for seeing patterns over time in various tech industries, and for making work that had previously been invisible to me (and admittedly also thus devalued) visible and vital. Some of the attempts at levity fall a little flat, but they were easy for me to ignore because I was busy drawing connections between the chapters. Women were pushed out of profession after profession as part of exactly the same progression of events and attitude changes, and Evans is adept […]
The Value of Invisible Work
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans