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03143aam a2200505 i 4500 001 54F3816832FD11ECA73A95B520ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211022010017 008 210211t20212021nyu 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2021934855 020 $a 9781419758041 020 $a 1419758047 035 $a (OCoLC)1237252763 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $e rda $d HBP $d IZ8 $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h swe 082 04 $a 604.82 $2 23 100 1 $a Marçal, Katrine, $e author. 240 10 $a Att uppfinna vaÌrlden. $l English 245 10 $a Mother of invention : $b how good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men / $c Katrine Marçal ; translated by Alex Fleming. 246 30 $a How good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Abrams Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 296 pages : $c 24 cm. 500 $a Translation of Att uppfinna vaÌrlden from the Swedish. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296). 520 $a The 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."-- $c Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Technology and women. 650 0 $a Technological innovations. 650 0 $a Inventions. 650 0 $a Women inventors. 650 0 $a Inventors. 700 1 $a Fleming, Alex $c (Translator), $e translator. 941 $a 11 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716033632.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611015542.0 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515012541.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020524.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011115.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221129011341.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728015310.0 952 $l VCPD034 $d 20220601010935.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220506012449.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220329010821.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20211209010335.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=54F3816832FD11ECA73A95B520ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search